New Research on the Water-Borne Disease of Public Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Infectious Disease Epidemiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 671
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Water is crucial to all living beings; however, water may also be a vehicle for the transmission of pathogens that will have an impact on public health. In more economically developed countries, water is vastly controlled and treated, whereas in less economically developed countries, the lack of a clean water supply, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) are still major causes for the spread of waterborne diseases. Worldwide, at least 2 billion people use fecally contaminated drinking water sources containing pathogens; contamination with fecal matter poses the greatest risk to drinking water safety. This results in outbreaks of diseases, such as diarrhea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, and polio, with an estimated 485,000 deaths being attributed to diarrhea each year. Climate change has led to an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as droughts and heavy rainfall events. This has various implications for waterborne diseases. Heavy rainfall events may be responsible for the mobilization of pathogens, with an impact on water and sanitation infrastructures, whereas extensive droughts may be responsible for the concentration of pathogens in water. Additionally, higher temperatures can change the virulence, replication, and survival of pathogens. Emerging pollutants, such as pesticides, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), microplastics, and pharmaceuticals, are generating public concern.
Papers addressing these topics are invited for this Special Issue, especially those discussing high academic standards on emerging pathogens, antimicrobial resistance, and emerging pollutants of concern.
Dr. Silvia Patricia Nunes Monteiro
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- emerging pathogens
- emerging pollutants
- antimicrobial resistance
- climate change
- public health
- water
- wastewater-based solutions
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