During a 25-year period ending in 2022, public health officials in 23 states — including New York — and Puerto Rico reported 60 "splash pad" associated outbreaks due to waterborne disease, the Centers ...

Pakistani children who survived the floods are now vulnerable to illness caused by contaminated water. Millions of children who survived the floods that ravaged Pakistan are now vulnerable to a second ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than 10,000 people got sick in outbreaks linked to water playgrounds between 1997 and 2022. The outbreaks ...

Researchers examined how disinfectants used to clean tap water behave once they’re in the water, raising several questions ...

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, May 28, 2024 (ENS) – “You got into the mud, walked through flood water and had symptoms of leptospirosis? Seek health care, as there is treatment and we have enough medication.

An analysis of 12 years of data collected from over 500 hospitals in 25 different U.S. states shows that weather, geographic location, and urban or rural location all appear to influence ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A CDC study found that splash pads, or water playgrounds, have been linked to more than 10,000 cases of ...

DHAKA (Reuters) - Authorities in Bangladesh are bracing for the spread of waterborne diseases and racing to get drinking water to people after devastating floods last week that left at least 54 people ...

THE government is scrambling to raise funds after revealing that it is running low on critical medical supplies needed to curb a surge in waterborne diseases.

Bengaluru: Over the past five years, Karnataka consistently recorded a very high number of acute diarrhoeal disease (ADD) and ...