Drop of News … ..from CDC’s Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch (WDPB); June 2008

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases. Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch.
• Description:
  A Drop of News is a forum for highlighting state and local waterborne disease surveillance activities, and giving informal updates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about waterborne disease and outbreak surveillance initiatives.
  
  This issue brings you tools for preventing and investigating waterborne disease outbreaks, with a particular emphasis on recreational water venues, as well as recommendations and examples of effective health communication strategies for outbreaks. See Actions and Alerts for information
  
  
  
  about recreational water illness (RWI) prevention materials, CDC’s RWI outbreak response toolkit and upcoming NORS trainings. This issue will also introduce some of our laboratory staff and research initiatives in DPD; as well as provide guidance on how to collect pool water and stool specimens for testing at CDC laboratories.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Drinking Water Water Microbiology Water Supply
• Series:
  Drop of News
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Newsletter
• Pages in Document:
  12 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:fadb07c9e74dc20a45b7fce09328226f4f6c1228d582782b974c7b3505ae2b5da1581dfb11c73dea6d734363221cade28982ecd3b823d24265c549bb87a3056e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/29388/cdc_29388_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 171.49 KB ]