Improving domestic hygiene practices is potentially one of the most effective means of
reducing the global burden of diarrhoeal diseases in children. However, encouraging …

Buruli ulcer is a neglected emerging disease that has recently been reported in some
countries as the second most frequent mycobacterial disease in humans after tuberculosis …

This study provides an approximate estimate of how much disease can be prevented by
reducing the environmental risks to health. It includes a meta-synthesis of key evidence …

This fully updated third edition of the classic text, widely cited as the most important and
useful book for health engineering and disease prevention, describes infectious diseases in …

Although promotion of safe hygiene is the single most cost-effective means of preventing
infectious disease, investment in hygiene is low both in the health and in the water and …

(WHO and UNICEF 2000), the most recent compilation of global statistics on water supply,
changed the way that such data are compiled, from the previous unreliable estimates by …

Point-of-use water treatment (household water treatment, HWT) has been advocated as a
means to substantially decrease the global burden of diarrhea and to contribute to the …

Background Lack of access to and use of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) cause 1.6
million deaths every year, of which 1.2 million are due to gastrointestinal illnesses like …

Background Eye-seeking flies have received much attention as possible trachoma vectors,
but this remains unproved. We aimed to assess the role of eye-seeking flies as vectors of …

Trachoma is the most common infectious cause of blindness. It is caused by ocular serovars
of Chlamydia trachomatis. Transmission is favoured in poor communities, where crowding is …