Fort-Dauphin beach sands, south Madagascar: natural radionuclides and mineralogical studies

Cholera prevention with traditional and novel water treatment methods: an outbreak investigation in Fort-Dauphin, Madagascar.

In March 1999, cholera appeared in Madagascar after a long hiatus and caused more than 37 000 cases and 2200 deaths. In October 1999, the Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Health Initiative funded CARE Madagascar to implement a household-based safe water intervention. CARE contracted with Population Services Internat...

The Long Beach/Fort Lauderdale relative risk study.

PROBLEM The role of alcohol as a major factor in traffic crash causation has been firmly established. However, controversy remains as to the precise shape of the relative risk function and the BAC at which crash risk begins to increase. METHODS This study used a case-control design in two locations: Long Beach, California, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Data were collected on 2,871 crashes of ...

Natural Radionuclides in Seafood

Method repeatability for measuring Enterococcus in southern California beach sands.

AIMS A recent study that evaluated 22 methods for enumerating faecal indicator bacteria in sand recommended standardization to a preferred method, but all researchers involved in that study had extensive experience in processing sand samples. The purpose of this study was to evaluate how well the recommended method can be transferred to laboratories without such experience. METHODS AND RESULT...

Heavy mineral investigation of Carmel Bay beach sands

This investigation was conducted in order to identify the heavy minerals of the beach sands of Carmel Bay, and to analyze the distribution of these minerals, Carmel Bay offers the opportunity to study heavy mineral assemblages in a small isolated bay, internally divided by a submarine canyon, containing smaller pocket beaches influenced by several geological formations and two fresh water strea...