enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Human viruses in water - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_viruses_in_water

    For example, hepatitis, gastroenteritis, meningitis, fever, rash, and conjunctivitis can all be spread through contaminated water. More viruses are being discovered in water because of new detection and characterization methods, although only some of these viruses are human pathogens. [4] Rotavirus, an example of human water viruses

  3. 1993 Milwaukee cryptosporidiosis outbreak - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Milwaukee...

    It is suspected that The Howard Avenue Water Purification Plant, one of two water treatment plants in Milwaukee at the time, was contaminated. It is believed that the contamination was due to an ineffective filtration process. [1] Approximately 403,000 residents were affected resulting in illness and hospitalization.

  4. Water purification - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_purification

    This contaminated water can be disposed of, along with the sludge from the sedimentation basin, or it can be recycled by mixing with the raw water entering the plant although this is often considered poor practice since it re-introduces an elevated concentration of bacteria into the raw water. Some water treatment plants employ pressure filters.

  5. Bird flu virus found in Los Angeles County wastewater - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/bird-flu-virus-found-los...

    A water treatment facility in Pico Rivera. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) Los Angeles County health officials said they have detected H5N1 bird flu virus in wastewater collected from the A.K ...

  6. Waterborne disease - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterborne_disease

    Waterborne diseases are conditions (meaning adverse effects on human health, such as death, disability, illness or disorders) [1]: 47 caused by pathogenic micro-organisms that are transmitted by water. These diseases can be spread while bathing, washing, drinking water, or by eating food exposed to contaminated water. [2]

  7. Portable water purification - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_water_purification

    Pathogenic viruses may also be found in water. The larvae of flukes are particularly dangerous in area frequented by sheep, deer, or cattle. If such microscopic larvae are ingested, they can form potentially life-threatening cysts in the brain or liver. This risk extends to plants grown in or near water including the commonly eaten watercress.

  8. Experts blast CDC over failure to test sewage for signs of ...

    www.aol.com/news/experts-blast-cdc-over-refusal...

    But wastewater surveillance — the testing of sewage for signs of pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2, poliovirus and mpox virus — has yet to be employed in the tracking of H5N1 bird flu virus.

  9. Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_germicidal...

    In 1955, UV water treatment systems were applied in Austria and Switzerland; by 1985 about 1,500 plants were employed in Europe. In 1998 it was discovered that protozoa such as cryptosporidium and giardia were more vulnerable to UV light than previously thought; this opened the way to wide-scale use of UV water treatment in North America. By ...