• DOI:10.2307/3435011
Corpus ID: 9434935

Climate variability and change in the United States: potential impacts on water- and foodborne diseases caused by microbiologic agents.

@article{Rose2001ClimateVA,
  title={Climate variability and change in the United States: potential impacts on water- and foodborne diseases caused by microbiologic agents.},
  author={J. Rose and P. Epstein and E. Lipp and B. H. Sherman and S. M. Bernard and J. Patz},
  journal={Environmental Health Perspectives},
  year={2001},
  volume={109},
  pages={211 - 221}
}

• J. Rose, P. Epstein, +3 authors J. Patz
• Published 2001
• Medicine
• Environmental Health Perspectives

Exposure to waterborne and foodborne pathogens can occur via drinking water (associated with fecal contamination), seafood (due to natural microbial hazards, toxins, or wastewater disposal) or fresh produce (irrigated or processed with contaminated water). Weather influences the transport and dissemination of these microbial agents via rainfall and runoff and the survival and/or growth through such factors as temperature. Federal and state laws and regulatory programs protect much of the U.S… Expand

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