Health Issues

E. coli

• Escherichia coli
• Drinking water

Escherichia coli

• Canada Communicable Disease Report (magazine)
  • Comparison of Campylobacter, Salmonella and E. coli human cases for 1995
  • Human pathogenic E. coli cases for 1995
• Disease Surveillance Online (statistics on E. coli and related diseases)
• Division of Foodborne and Enteric Disease
• Field Epidemiology Training Program
• Incidence of foodborne illnesses: Foodnet, 1997
• Infection control guidelines: Routine practices and additional precautions for preventing the transmission of infection in health care
• Infectious diseases news brief
• Material Safety Data Sheets (infectious agents), Office of Biosafety

For more information,
please contact the media relations line at 613-941-8189.

Drinking water

• Federal-Provincial Subcommittee on Drinking Water
• It's Your Health fact sheet series
  • Water chlorination
• Undiluted truth about drinking water
• Water quality activities, Health Canada

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