A waterborne epidemic of non-A, non-B hepatitis occurred in Medea, an Algerian town of 68,000 inhabitants during the autumn and winter of 1980-1981. About 6 weeks before the epidemic, there had been a chlorination failure and an accidental sewage contamination of the river water that supplied large
A HEPATITIS EPIDEMIC PRESUMABLY SPREAD BY WATER1
β Scribed by OLIN, GUNNAR
- Book ID
- 114681016
- Publisher
- Wiley (Blackwell Publishing)
- Year
- 2009
- Weight
- 493 KB
- Volume
- 128
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0001-6101
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