One in Five Americans Pee in Pool; Almost Half Admit Unhygienic Pool Behavior

... (16 %) think about chlorine levels to maintain clean pool water. "Swimming is a fun and healthy activity for old and young alike. Proper water chlorination helps protect swimmers from germs that can make swimmers sick," said Michele Hlavsa, Epidemiologist in the Division of Parasitic Diseases for the Cent...

New Paint Shows Germ-Fighting Potential

...ews release. The scientists added that the paint retains its antimicrobial properties for extended periods and is easily "recharged" using a simple chlorination process. The study appears in the current issue of Materials & Interfaces . More information The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has...

Is tap water safe for expectant mothers?

...iwan, is the first that links by-products of water chlorination to three specific birth defects. Water chlorination is a widely used and efficient method to disinfect...umerous studies have revealed the presence of many chlorination by-products in the water. Recent research suggests...

ACC Observes National Drinking Water Week

...trol and Prevention notes that this year marks the 100th anniversary of the chlorination of drinking water -- one of the most significant public health advances in ...rch suggests that, in the early 20th century, drinking water filtration and chlorination reduced typhoid fever death rates by more than 90 percent and childhood mor...

Purdue lab works to improve conditions at indoor swimming pools

...effects of disinfection byproducts, Beach said. chlorination is used primarily to prevent pathogenic microorgan...nfection byproducts that are formed as a result of chlorination of urea, creatinine, amino acids and other compoun... learn more about using ultraviolet radiation with chlorination to disinfect recreational water. The research focu...

Vestergaard Frandsen Announces Launch of LifeStraw(R) Family

...nterventions to prevent diarrhea. Of these interventions, filtration provided by far the most diarrhea reduction (63%), compared to other methods like chlorination (37%) and solar disinfection (31%). LifeStraw(R) Family builds upon the success of LifeStraw(R) Personal, a portable water filtration device develop...

Exposure to Chlorinated Swimming Pools Could Increase Asthma Risk in Children

...s have higher rates of asthma and breathing problems later on than those who did not. This was blamed on airway damage from breathing in various chlorination fumes. One of the potentially harmful gases was named as trichloramine - or nitrogen trichloride - which can result from chlorine reacting with ...

Cholera sneaks its way in to the prison

...ned the 4 prisoners said that they were given proper medications and that their conditions were stable. Hence various preventive measures such as chlorination of the drinking water reservoirs, vaccinating the other 2500 inmates in the prison are undertaken. Apart from cholera they also suspect food poi...

Water Borne Diseases causing More Havoc in Mumbai

...d 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. To provide the high-risk group with potable water in the short term r...

Mumbai Alert: Possibility Of An Epidemic Outbreak

...the situation. With fears of an epidemic breaking out, the state government has sent its medical teams armed with extra drugs to the affected areas. chlorination levels are also expected to shoot up shortly in response to the situation. Anyway the situation in Mumbai calls for immediate attention and enquiry....

Chlorination in Medical Dictionary

Chlorination

Chlorination is the process of adding the element chlorine to water as a method of water purification to make it fit for human consumption as drinking water. Water which has been treated with chlorine is effective in preventing the spread of disease. ... will chlorination remove, Ho...

Chlorination in Biological News

American Chemical Society Weekly PressPac -- April 15, 2009

...hose resistant to multiple antibiotics. The paint retains an anti-microbial punch for extended periods, and it can be easily "recharged" with a simple chlorination process, the researchers note. - MTS DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT ARTICLE: http://pubs.acs.org/stoken/presspac/presspac/full/10.1021/am800157a CONTACT: ...

Possible link between baby swimming and breathing problems in children

...k between baby swimming and airway infections in children. It has been suggested that indoor environmental factors (airway irritants) such as volatile chlorination products for indoor swimming pools can affect lung epithelium and contribute to the development of respiratory illnesses like asthma among children. ...

Breakthrough research turns the tide on water-borne pathogen

...oping countries, and causes severe disease in AIDS and other immune compromised patients in the developed world. Cryptosporidium is resistant to water chlorination and has caused massive outbreaks in the U.S., which has led to the concern that the parasite could be used as a bio-terrorism agent. There are neither...

Arsenic contamination lacks one-size-fits-all remedy

...dison geologists Eric Roden and Evgenya Shelobolina evaluated the impact of chlorination on bacteria and arsenic levels in Wisconsin wells. The results were pres...ved bacteria and reduced arsenic levels in the short term. In addition, chlorination did not increase arsenic release from the surrounding rocks, showing that o...