Resources with keywords: Waterborne Diseases



Notes from the Field: Fatal Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in a Patient Who Regularly Used Tap Water in an Electronic Nasal Irrigation Device and a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Machine at Home — New Mexico, 2023
CDC / MMWR
27 March 2025

Haston JC, Ali IK, Roy S, et al.
Acanthamoeba, a free-living ameba, can cause encephalitis and disseminated disease that are nearly always fatal. Immunocompromised persons are at highest risk for these infections

Fatal Case of Splash Pad–Associated Naegleria fowleri Meningoencephalitis — Pulaski County, Arkansas, September 2023
CDC / MMWR
27 March 2025

Dulski TM, Montgomery F, Ramos JM, et al.
Most Naegleria fowleri infections are life-threatening and associated with swimming or diving in fresh water, such as a lake.

Notes from the Field: Genomic and Wastewater Surveillance Data to Guide a Hepatitis A Outbreak Response — Los Angeles County, March 2024–June 2024
CDC / MMWR

Genomic analysis and wastewater testing can complement traditional case-based surveillance to identify and better characterize HAV outbreaks.

Detections of poliovirus in sewage samples require enhanced routine and catch-up vaccination and increased surveillance
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
30 January 2025

Between September and December 2024, four countries in the EU/EEA (Finland, Germany, Poland, Spain) and the United Kingdom reported detections of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in sewage samples. This is the first time cVDPV2 has been detected in EU/EEA countries from environmental surveillance.

A giant virus infecting the amoeboflagellate Naegleria
Nature Communications
24 April 2024

Arthofer P, Panhölzl F, Delafont V, et al.
Naeglerivirus infection was lethal to all Naegleria species tested, including the human pathogen N. fowleri. This study expands our experimental framework for investigating giant viruses and may help to better understand the basic biology of the human pathogen N. fowleri.

Surveillance of Waterborne Disease Outbreaks Associated with Drinking Water — United States, 2015–2020
CDC / MMWR
14 March 2024

Kunz JM, Lawinger H, Miko S, et al.
the report presents outbreak-contributing factors (i.e., practices and factors that lead to outbreaks) and, for the first time, categorizes outbreaks as biofilm pathogen or enteric illness associated.

National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) (Website, Regulatory)
CDC / National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS)

CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) program collects and displays wastewater data from communities across the United States.

Severe Vibrio vulnificus Infections in the United States Associated with Warming Coastal Waters
CDC / Health Alert Network (HAN)
1 September 2023
Waterborne infections rise after hurricanes, decades of data show
Infectious Disease News
29 July 2023
Waterborne Infectious Diseases Associated with Exposure to Tropical Cyclonic Storms, United States, 1996–2018
CDC / Emerging Infectious Diseases
12 July 2023

Lynch VD, Shaman J
The authors used surveillance data from the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS; https://www.cdc.gov/nndss) to identify weekly cases of cryptosporidiosis, giardiasis, Legionnaires’ disease, Escherichia coli infections, salmonellosis, and shigellosis during 1996–2018 for each US state.

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