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Currently, about fourteen waterborne‐disease outbreaks occur each year in the US and cause, on an average, 1,600 illnesses and one death per year. This is not a leading cause of the American public's illnesses, but it represents a residual that should have been eliminated in this age of sanitation.
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Craun et al. (1973) studied this question.
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