TealBrook Supplies
serving the needs of Missionaries, Adventurers and International Travelers
- Since
1991 TealBrook Supplies has been providing products to protect
the health
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safety of those living and traveling overseas, including the
PentaPure®
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Crystal Clear ™ lines of water purifiers.
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Water
Purification Items: International Use
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This site last updated 09/28/2006
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Distributors
of PentaPure® Water Purification Systems for International
Use since 1991 and Crystal Clear™ Water Purification products
since 2001.
Bacterial
Waterborne Diseases
Clinical
Features:
A range of syndromes, including acute dehydrating diarrhea (cholera),
prolonged febrile illness
with abdominal symptoms (typhoid fever), acute bloody diarrhea
(dysentery), and chronic diarrhea (Brainerd diarrhea).
Common agents include Vibrio cholerae, Campylobacter, Salmonella,
Shigella, and the diarrheogenic Escherichia coli.
Incidence: each year, an estimated 3-5 billion episodes
of diarrhea result in an estimated 3 million deaths, mostly among
children.
Waterborne bacterial infections may account for as many as half
of these episodes and deaths. Many deaths among infants and
young children are due to dehydration, malnutrition, or other
complications of waterborne bacterial infections.
Transmission: Contaminated surface water sources and large
poorly functioning municipal water distribution systems contribute
to transmission of waterborne bacterial diseases. Chlorination
and safe water handling can eliminate the risk of waterborne bacterial
diseases.
Risk Groups: Over 2 billion persons living in poverty in
the developing world are at high risk. Sporadic cases are under-reported.
CDC surveillance may detect a small proportion of outbreaks in
the United States; outbreaks abroad are often missed.
Despite global efforts during the water and sanitation
decade, improvements in water and sanitation infrastructure have
barely kept pace with population increases and migrations in the
developing world.
Centralized water treatment and distribution systems are
expensive and take years to complete. To provide the under-served
with potable water in the short term requires innovative
practical solutions such as point-of-use disinfection
and safe water storage vessels.
Source of
information:
Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center for Infectious Diseases
Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases