Sources of pathogenic microorganisms and their fate during land application of wastes

CP Gerba, JE Smith - Journal of environmental quality, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The hazards associated with pathogens in land‐applied animal and human wastes have
long been recognized. Management of these risks requires an understanding of sources …

Risk of waterborne illness via drinking water in the United States

KA Reynolds, KD Mena, CP Gerba - Reviews of environmental …, 2008 - Springer
The quality of drinking water in the United States is among the best in the world; however,
waterborne disease outbreaks continue to occur, and many more cases of endemic illness …

Estimated human health risks from exposure to recreational waters impacted by human and non-human sources of faecal contamination

JA Soller, ME Schoen, T Bartrand, JE Ravenscroft… - Water research, 2010 - Elsevier
This work was conducted to determine whether estimated risks following exposure to
recreational waters impacted by gull, chicken, pig, or cattle faecal contamination are …

Development and validation of the Food Disgust Scale

C Hartmann, M Siegrist - Food Quality and Preference, 2018 - Elsevier
The function of disgust as a pathogen avoidance promoter in the food domain is not well
understood. One problem is that no food-specific disgust scale is available. Thus, we …

Identifying vulnerable subpopulations for climate change health effects in the United States

JM Balbus, C Malina - Journal of occupational and environmental …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Climate change can be expected to have differential effects on different subpopulations.
Biological sensitivity, socioeconomic factors, and geography may each contribute to …

Climate variability and change in the United States: potential impacts on water-and foodborne diseases caused by microbiologic agents.

JB Rose, PR Epstein, EK Lipp… - Environmental …, 2001 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Exposure to waterborne and foodborne pathogens can occur via drinking water (associated
with fecal contamination), seafood (due to natural microbial hazards, toxins, or wastewater …

Large scale survey of enteric viruses in river and waste water underlines the health status of the local population

B Prevost, FS Lucas, A Goncalves, F Richard… - Environment …, 2015 - Elsevier
Although enteric viruses constitute a major cause of acute waterborne diseases worldwide,
environmental data about occurrence and viral load of enteric viruses in water are not often …

Colloid transport and retention in unsaturated porous media: A review of interface‐, collector‐, and pore‐scale processes and models

SA Bradford, S Torkzaban - Vadose Zone Journal, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Our ability to accurately simulate the transport and retention of colloids in the vadose zone is
currently limited by our lack of basic understanding of colloid retention processes that occur …

Morning sickness: a mechanism for protecting mother and embryo

SM Flaxman, PW Sherman - The Quarterly review of biology, 2000 - journals.uchicago.edu
Approximately two-thirds of women experience nausea or vomiting during the first trimester
of pregnancy. These symptoms are commonly known as morning sickness. Hook (1976) and …

The potential health impacts of climate variability and change for the United States: executive summary of the report of the health sector of the US National Assessment …

JA Patz, MA McGeehin, SM Bernard… - Environmental …, 2000 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
We examined the potential impacts of climate variability and change on human health as
part of a congressionally mandated study of climate change in the United States. Our author …