Water Quality

AUSTIN, Texas —The AquaBplus double-stage water purification system by Fresenius Medical Care uses reverse osmosis to yield lower colony count in dialysis water, according to a poster presented here.

More must be done to address the serious health consequences from climate change, according to the ACP.

Summer is upon us, and it is the time of year when we start to see an increasing incidence of gastroenteritis from increased exposure to various water and foodborne pathogens.

In the summer of 2016, an outbreak of anthrax in the Russian Arctic that left dozens of people hospitalized and one 12-year-old boy dead was blamed on the thawing carcass of a reindeer that had died in the area’s previous anthrax outbreak in 1941.