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In much of the developed world, sewage treatment is operated with the assumption that people are regularly putting pathogens in the sewage via their feces.
by mmagin 10y ago
In much of the developed world, sewage treatment is operated with the assumption that people are regularly putting pathogens in the sewage via their feces.
- jerryhuang100 10y agou will be surprised how often large outbreak of parasites infections there are in "developed world's" public water supply: Sweden [1], US [2]. CDC even has a web page set up for Drinking Water-associated Disease Surveillance. [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3966397/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3966397/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Water_supply§ion=25#Outbreaks_of_diseases_due_to_contaminated_water_supply https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Water_supply§...