The diarrhea dilemma: managing illness in Mexico. (Science Selections).

Environmental Health Perspectives | October 1, 2002| | Copyright

Although preventing a water supply from becoming polluted is critical, it may be even more critical to properly manage water along its path to the consumer, according to a study out of Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica [EHP [10:A619-A624]. Each year, unsafe sewage disposal and fecal--oral transmission of pathogens are responsible for 3.2 million premature deaths from otherwise preventable enteric diseases, including diarrheal diseases, says the World Health Organization. However, Enrique Cifuentes and colleagues say that water quality indicators such as microbial ...

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