Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
TABLE 1.4
(continued)
Disease
Specific
Reservoir
Common
Symptoms
Incubation
Prevention
Agent
Vehicle
in Brief
Period
and Control
Copper
poisoning
Copper
Copper pipes
and utensils
Carbonated
beverages and acid
foods in prolonged
contact with
copper
Vomiting, weakness,
diarrhea
1 hr or less
Do not prepare or store
acid foods or liquids or
carbonated beverages in
copper containers. Cu
should not exceed
0.3 mg/l. Prevent CO 2
backflow into copper lines
in soft drink machines.
Reference: Material safety data sheets-Infectious substances. 2001. Public Health Agency of Canada
(available at: http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/msds-ftss/msds106e.html); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2007.
Acanthamoeba infection, Department of Health and Human Services
(available at http://www.cdc.gov/NCIDOD/DPD/parasites/acanthamoeba/factsht acanthamoeba.htm); Martinez, A. J.
Free-living amebas: Naeglaria, Acanthamoeba ,and Balamuthia , Medmicro chapter 81 (available at
http://www.gsbs.utmb.edu/microbook/ch081.htm)
Source: This figure represents a summary of information selected from: I. G. M. Dack, Food Poisoning , 251 pp., University of Chicago Press, 1956. 2. C. E.
Dolman, “Bacterial Food Poisoning,” 46 pp., Canad. Pub. Health J. Assoc ., 1943. 3. V. A. Getting, “Epidemiologic Aspects of Food-Borne Disease,” 75 pp.,
New Eng. J. Med ., 1943. 4. F. A. Korff, “Food Establishment Sanitation in a Municipality,” Am.J.Pub.Health 32 , 740 (1952). 5. P. Manson-Bahr, Synopsis
of Tropical Medicine , 224 pp., Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1943. 6. New York State Department of Health, Health News . 7. Miscellaneous military and
civilian texts and reports. 8. R. P. Strong, Stitt's Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , 2 vols., Blakiston Co., Philadelphia, 1942. 9. The
Control of Communicable Diseases in Man , American Public Health Association, Washington, D.C., (Sept. 1944, Revised May 1945, 1946, 1952, 1971, 1980,
Search WWH ::




Custom Search