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  2. List of pollution-related diseases - Wikipedia

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    Diseases caused by pollution, lead to the chronic illness and deaths of about 8.4 million people each year. However, pollution receives a fraction of the interest from the global community. [1] This is in part because pollution causes so many diseases that it is often difficult to draw a straight line between cause and effect.

  3. Environmental disease - Wikipedia

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    In epidemiology, environmental diseases are diseases that can be directly attributed to environmental factors (as distinct from genetic factors or infection).Apart from the true monogenic genetic disorders, which are rare, environment is a major determinant of the development of disease.

  4. Human impact on the environment - Wikipedia

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    Water pollution may affect either surface water or groundwater. This form of pollution can lead to many problems. One is the degradation of aquatic ecosystems. Another is spreading water-borne diseases when people use polluted water for drinking or irrigation. [154]

  5. Environmental epidemiology - Wikipedia

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    Environmental epidemiology is a branch of epidemiology concerned with determining how environmental exposures impact human health. [1] This field seeks to understand how various external risk factors may predispose to or protect against disease, illness, injury, developmental abnormalities, or death.

  6. Environmental hazard - Wikipedia

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    Environmental hazards are those hazards that affect biomes or ecosystems. [1] Well known examples include oil spills, water pollution, slash and burn deforestation, air pollution, ground fissures, [2] and build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide. [3] Physical exposure to environmental hazards is usually involuntary [3]

  7. Food poisoning is extremely common. But that doesn't ... - AOL

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    While many cases go unreported, "the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 48 million people – about 1 in 6 Americans – get sick from foodborne illnesses each ...

  8. Waterborne disease - Wikipedia

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    A related term is "water-related disease" which is defined as "any significant or widespread adverse effects on human health, such as death, disability, illness or disorders, caused directly or indirectly by the condition, or changes in the quantity or quality of any water".

  9. Air pollution reaches unhealthy levels in Shenandoah Valley ...

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    A code orange air quality alert means that air pollution concentrations within the region may become unhealthy for sensitive groups. Not all areas will be affected at the same time due to the ...