WATERBORNE VIRAL INFECTIONS AND THEIR PREVENTION
- 1 January 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 38 (3) , 401-+
Abstract
Unless special measures are taken, community water supplies are likely to contain enteric viruses which may lead to sporadic cases, or even epidemics, of such diseases as infectious hepatitis or poliomyelitis. After a general discussion of waterborne viral infections, in which it is pointed out that subclinical infections may considerably outnumber clinical cases, a method is proposed for the concentration and detection of enteric viruses in water by means of membrane filtration and growth on monkey-kidney-cell or other tissue cultures. The various methods of disinfection of water which can reduce the virus concentration to an acceptable level are discussed, and flocculation and filtration followed by chlorination, or ozonation followed by chlorination, are adequate methods where large volumes of water are to be treated. In developing countries where relatively small volumes of water have to be treated, iodination appears to offer Certain advantages, allowing the construction of a simple water-treatment plant requiring little supervision. However, until the long-term effects of iodine, in particular on pregnant women and young children, are known iodination plants should be used only on an experimental basis.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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