The groundwater extraction rate has become unsustainable, and desalinated water has become the main source of drinking water, either through piping (tap water) or as bottled water in the UAE. The product water from desalination is generally of high quality but may contain some contaminants, ...
Drinking water and infectious disease. Establishing the links: P.R. Hunter, M. Waite, E. Ronchi (Eds.); CRC Press, 2002, 248pp, ISBN 1843390272 (£89)Drinking water and infectious disease. Establishing the links: P.R. Hunter, M. Waite, E. Ronchi (Eds.); CRC Press, 2002, 248pp...
In many countries, considerable uncertainty still exists about the contribution of drinking water to sporadic cases of disease. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO), led the Workshop on Molecular Technologies for Safe...
Drinking Water in 1998 to address the role of water in the transmission of infectious disease. One of the results was a call for improved surveillance and outbreak investigation. Drinking Water and Infectious Disease: Establishing the Links, derived from an OECD workshop hosted by the UK ...
The disease burden attributable to unsafe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) has been estimated multiple times by different institutions, such as WHO and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). These analyses have used different counterfactuals ranging from basic WASH servic...
or possibly by drinking contaminated water, or even by applying the flesh of infected animals as a poultice for the eye [200]. Besides causing DSN,Gnathostomaspp. can prove highly destructive to the eye, invading orbital tissues [201] and the intraocular compartment [202] alike. It is proba...
Neurologist Samuel Goldman, MD, MPH, had long felt obligated to dive into the question of whether the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that had contaminated the drinking water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune up to the mid-1980s were associated with an increased risk of Parkinson dis...
Taurine was orally administered to the mice via drinking water for 6 weeks. The Y-maze and the passive avoid- ance tasks were then performed in succession to test for improve- ment of the spatial working memory and the contextual learning abilities, respectively. After sacrificing the animals ...
The GALA–ALD cohort is a diagnostic-test cohort of consecutively recruited patients with a history of harmful drinking. They represent asymptomatic ALD within the full spectrum of early stages of the disease, because any individuals with known chronic liver disease and/or clear signs of decompensate...
(1)The Chinese tea drinking culture started from ___.A.the Tang DynastyB.the Song DynastyC.the Ming DynastyD.the Qing Dynasty(2)A whole fish is a symbol of ___in China.A.hopefulnessB.happinessC.richnessD.kindness(3)The year 2020 is the year of the ___.A.pigB.ratC.snakeD.monke...