Waterborne Diseases Toolbox for biosafety/biosecurity professionals: current and relevant resources compiled from organizations, government agencies, and news outlets.
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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.
This resource lists rapid outbreak assessment and epidemiological updates on outbreaks of food- and water borne diseases.
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
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.
Goetzman J, Carter A, Oliveira A, Ingram LA
In June 2023, a total of 47 cases of cyclosporiasis were associated with consumption of food from a Mexican-style restaurant in Alabama. Analysis of case-control data identified cilantro as the likely food source. Collaboration among multiple states and their respective agencies enabled successful traceback of cilantro to a source in Mexico.
Collier SA, Deng L, Adam EA, et al.
Ali IK, Roy S
Ali IK, Roy S
In recent years, conflict, mass displacement, disasters from natural hazards, and climate change have intensified
outbreaks, particularly in rural and flood-affected areas, where poor infrastructure and limited healthcare access
delay treatment. These cross-border factors have made cholera outbreaks increasingly complex and harder to
control.
CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) program collects and displays wastewater data from communities across the United States.
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.
Benedict KM, Reses H, Vigar M, et al.
WHO Immunization, Vaccines, and Biologicals Department’s list of vaccine-preventable diseases
Genomic analysis and wastewater testing can complement traditional case-based surveillance to identify and better characterize HAV outbreaks.
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.
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.
CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) program collects and displays wastewater data from communities across the United States.
Chiumento G, Osinski A, DeVoe K, et al.
Hlavsa MC, Aluko SK, Miller AD, et al.
Yiek WK, Coenen O, Nillesen M, van Ingen J, Bowles E, Tostmann A
Graham JP, Amato HK, Mendizabal-Cabrera R, Alvarez D, Ramay BM
Decker BK, Palmore TN
Kanamori H, et al.
Samadpour M, Evans PS, Everett KDE, Ghatpande P, Ma GJ, Miksch RR
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