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Article: Gastroenteritis outbreak at holiday resort, central Italy.(DISPATCHES)
- Article from:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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During the summer of 2003, a gastroenteritis outbreak spread throughout a holiday resort in central Italy. Fecally contaminated groundwater and seawater were leaking into the non-drinking-water system, which was found to be connected to the drinking-water system of a large resort. This contamination had a primary role in the onset of the outbreak and spread of the infection.
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Gastrointestinal infections are the most common diseases among resort guests (1). The role of drinking water in transmission, which involves mostly leakage from non-drinking-water or sewage systems or cross-connection between water supply and wastewater systems (2-4), has ...