The Hill

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The best prevention is for people to wash their hands well with soap and water; hand sanitizer alone does not work well against norovirus. The virus spreads through contaminated water, food and surfaces; it only takes a few norovirus particles to make people sick, the CDC said.

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Rural Health Information Hub

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Explores Indian Health Service (IHS) efforts to expand staffing and capacity to administer and oversee Sanitation Facilities Construction (SFC) projects funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) in fiscal year 2023.

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The Hindu

MARCH 5, 2025

Sanitation and Fitness Evaluation (SAFE) project was conceived as a surveillance program for food handlers to strengthen food safety and public health. Food handlers were later issued health cards of one-year validity

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The Hindu

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The World Health Organization reported in 2023 that unsafe water, sanitation, and hygiene are responsible for approximately 1,000 deaths of children under the age of five every day

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss accessibility to clean water and sanitation as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6 through the lens of Rachel’s research expertise and perspectives on sustainable agriculture and climate change. How do the farmers perceive the rising concerns of access to clean water and sanitation?

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The Hindu

DECEMBER 8, 2024

The policy also aims to promote clean and gender-segregated sanitation facilities as per standards in all government and government-aided schools

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Rural Health Information Hub

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

-- Indian Health Service, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

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APHL

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Not surprisingly, disease easily spread until the medical community gradually accepted the practice of preventative handwashing and instituted better hygiene/sanitation in hospital and medical settings. Fact #11: Hand sanitizer is OK to use—in a pinch The most effective way of getting hands clean is by washing them with soap and water.

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Gideon

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Schistosomiasis, also known as bilharzia, is a parasitic disease impacting millions, especially in areas with poor sanitation. Here, we break down its causes, symptoms, and global efforts to control this neglected tropical disease. Learn more on the GIDEON infectious diseases blog.

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Your Local Epidemiologist

MARCH 17, 2025

Hand sanitizer doesn’t kill this bugger, either—soap and water are your best bet. Sickness in your family should slow down soon, as respiratory season is in the rearview mirror. If you have the stomach bug, use a separate bathroom in your house and wear a mask if possible. Measles situation report As of Friday, the U.S.

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The Hill

JANUARY 8, 2025

One thing that won't kill norovirus is alcohol-based hand sanitizers. While hand sanitizer is effective against many viruses, norovirus has a protein shell called a capsid that can't easily be wiped away by alcohol-based disinfecting products.

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APHL

JANUARY 21, 2025

The rates are much higher in underdeveloped parts of the world where clean drinking water, indoor plumbing and proper sanitation are less common. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 450,000 people in this country are infected with Shigella.

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Mercola

MARCH 10, 2025

Now add to that a processing line moving at breakneck speed, where proper sanitation becomes more wish than reality. Those chemical treatments aren't just about sanitizing they're part of a process that quite literally waters down your dinner. It is time to question whether industrial efficiency has come at too high of a cost.

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News Medical Health Sciences

JANUARY 7, 2025

A compound derived from Nectandra leucantha, a tree native to southern Brazil (local names canela-seca or canela-branca), has the potential to be used to treat visceral leishmaniasis, a neglected tropical disease associated with poverty, malnutrition, poor housing and lack of basic sanitation.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 4, 2025

The materials developed in Polers lab will have to be certified by the National Sanitation Foundation. And then, when we regenerate it, we have maybe one liter of highly contaminated regenerate that can then be very easily destroyed by other types of technologies. Polers idea is that consumers would initially buy two cartridges.

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HEALTHBEAT

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

But upon returning to school, the city instructs individuals to take precautions to avoid getting others sick, such as wearing a mask and practicing good hygiene by covering coughs and sneezes, washing hands often, and using hand sanitizer. The city’s Education Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

Without decent shelter and sanitation, and limited food and water, disease thrived. It began with the U.S. Army destroying native homes and detaining our earliest Americans in concentration camps or holding pens for several months.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 9, 2022

Doctors, lawyers, nurses, sanitation workers – none of those people can go to work if they don’t have anywhere to put their children.” . Rochelle Wilcox, CEO of a network of child care centers in Louisiana, told US News & World Report : “We are hand in hand with the economy, and we are just not respected as such.

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Your Local Epidemiologist

JANUARY 3, 2025

Unfortunately, this virus is one of the hardest viruses to kill, so a quick dose of hand sanitizer doesn’t work. Source: CDC Norovirus — think nausea, vomiting, diarrhea — continues to have quite the season, with the number of positive tests and outbreaks abnormally high. Bleach-based products on surfaces are the best.

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APHL

JANUARY 15, 2025

From there, it can be decided if an alert needs to be issued to the public or new protocols for sanitation need to be put in place, etc. This information can then go to the public health departments or facilities seeing outbreaks.

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HEALTHBEAT

JANUARY 15, 2025

Unfortunately, hand sanitizer doesnt kill the virus because it has no outer membrane. Its notoriously infectious. While infected with norovirus, people shed billions of virus particles, but it only takes a couple of particles to infect someone. Use detergents with bleach to clean and disinfect surfaces.

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Mercola

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

5 The dynamics between phages and their bacterial hosts reveals how microbial communities maintain balance and resist the overgrowth of harmful bacteria, and advancing our knowledge of phage interactions within household biofilms allows for the creation of new, innovative approaches in health and sanitation.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

JANUARY 7, 2025

Explore how rising sea levels are impacting sewage and sanitation systems in coastal areas, potentially increasing exposure to waterborne pathogens. Investigate whether other coastal areas may be grappling with similar problems. Infrastructure damage. Health equity.

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Maternal Health Task Force

MAY 21, 2024

In addition to direct health impacts, climate change exacerbates socioeconomic determinants such as poverty , low educational attainment , reduced access to clean water and sanitation , racial and ethnic minorities , and income disparities , disproportionately affecting marginalized and vulnerable mothers.

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We like to think we live in a developed country, but some 2 million people are estimated to lack clean water (and sanitation); think Jackson (MS) or Flint (MI). Clean air/water : No one in America should lack clean water/air. Even more shocking, 135 million Americans are forced to breath polluted air.

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WA State Department of Health

JANUARY 13, 2025

This rulemaking is necessary to update the publication date of the NSSP guide adopted by reference from 2019 to the 2023 version.

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Your Local Epidemiologist

DECEMBER 19, 2024

So, a quick dose of hand sanitizer doesn’t work. Norovirus spreads through contaminated surfaces, so as always, wash those hands. Unfortunately, this virus is one of the hardest viruses to kill because it doesn’t have a stable coating called a membrane. Bleach-based products on surfaces are the best.

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Exploring Health

JANUARY 17, 2025

They know if there are issues with transportation, water sanitation, housing, violence, and more. As embedded members of the community, CHWs can tackle some of these inequities and approach healthcare holistically. They can lobby this information in the food chain of governance. Their voices are powerful.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Cholera was eliminated through clean water and sanitation. Malaria was eliminated from the U.S. through environmental control measures that included pesticides and mosquito repellants, getting rid of breeding sites, and using screens, windows and air conditioning.

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HEALTHBEAT

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Mayor Eric Adams has made the war on rats a central part of his administrations strategy, with his Department of Sanitation moving ahead with containerization of trash in the city. Rat behavior is almost entirely fueled by human behavior.

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Black Health Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

That cheap hand sanitizer you picked up at the gas station will not cut it against its power. Viruses report that in immunocompromised hosts, viral shedding in stools can persist for months following infection. How Can You Protect Your Home From Norovirus? Cleanliness is the best way to fight the spread of norovirus in your home.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The CDC report notes that all four hospitals used the same brand of ice machine, filters and sanitizing products. The CDC recently published a report on 23 new cases — in addition to 23 known previous ones — of bacterial infections with Burkholderia multivorans from the contained water and ice from ice machines at four different hospitals.

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HEALTHBEAT

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Department of Sanitation announced in May that rat sightings reported to 3-1-1 had fallen in 12 of the past 13 months compared to the prior year, and were down about 14% in the rat mitigation zones. By some measures, the city has made progress, but work remains.

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HEALTHBEAT

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Inside a Midtown women’s shelter, Cindy, another client, sat with Baker, sinking into casual conversation and digging between vials and sanitizing wipes. “You have to show up as yourself in these spaces, and then use the thing that you went to school for to help them in treatment,” Baker said later.

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HEALTHBEAT

AUGUST 27, 2024

He said he doesn’t have time to wash his hands at work but puts on hand sanitizer before going home and takes a shower once he arrives. “I only wear latex gloves,” he said. And I see that those who work with the cows that are sick also only wear gloves.” He has not had symptoms of infection.

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20th International Congress on Infectious Diseases

JANUARY 25, 2021

Jimale has multiple TOT experience in the fields of Lecturing, Andragogy, Curriculum Development, Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM), Public Health Emergency Operations Centre (PHEOC), International Health Regulations 2005 (IHR), Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), Antimicrobial Resistant/Use, Sphere project, Water Health and Sanitation (WASH), (..)

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Gideon

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Like other Neglected Tropical Diseases, it is endemic to low-income regions of the globe that deal with poor water quality, sanitation, and limited access to healthcare. This is why high-risk countries need to improve their sanitation and water quality standards. Brugia malayi is endemic to South and Southeast Asia.

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