The WASH Approach: Fighting Waterborne Diseases in Emergency Situations

The WASH Approach: Fighting Waterborne Diseases in Emergency Situations

Refugees collect water from a public tap stand in an Adjumani settlement.

Waterborne diseases.

Emerging Infectious Diseases Vol. 7, No. 3 Supplement, June 2001 544 Waterborne Disease Outbreaks In the United States, 127 drinking water outbreaks, most of them associated with groundwater systems, were reported to CDC from 1990 through 1998. The number of outbreaks has declined over the last 20 years, probably as a result of actions by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), water ut...

Fighting Critical Diseases

With approximately 225 million new cases and 800,000 deaths annually, malaria exacts a tremendous toll—mostly on African children under the age of five. Late-stage trials of an advanced malaria vaccine candidate—which, if approved, would become the world’s first malaria vaccine—are under way, and it may be ready for use by 2015. This article recounts the pivotal roles in that achievement played...

Modelling Decisions In Emergency Situations

This paper describes a methodology and supporting software tool that has been developed at AIAI for helping to model the decisions that people take in emergency situations o shore. We believe that this is the rst time that people's decision-making has been incorporated into egress and evacuation models. Our work is therefore an important rst step in the introduction of improved approaches to th...

Food, Waterborne, and Agricultural Diseases