{"id":727,"date":"2016-05-11T20:39:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T20:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/priorclavena.com\/?p=727"},"modified":"2020-01-30T22:15:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T22:15:07","slug":"public-health-labs-reveal-whats-living-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.priorclave.com\/en-us\/2016\/05\/11\/public-health-labs-reveal-whats-living-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Health Labs Reveal What\u2019s Living in Your Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we\u2019re all rubber-necking the Flint water-quality crisis, municipalities around the US are taking a closer look at their own aging infrastructures. Flint, Michigan, isn\u2019t the only city turning up dangerous levels of impurities and contaminants: from Legionella in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfsb.com\/story\/30396591\/bacteria-linked-to-legionnaires-disease-found-in-water-supply-at-berlin-high-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connecticut high school<\/a>\u00a0and at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/health\/vital-signs\/os-florida-hospital-orlando-legionella-case-2016-post.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Florida hospital,<\/a>\u00a0to E. coli at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakimaherald.com\/news\/local\/e-coli-discovery-prompts-mabton-to-order-residents-to-boil\/article_5d0131da-0670-11e6-bbcd-bbc5b61ae19e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington state elementary school<\/a>\u00a0and at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techtimes.com\/articles\/148932\/20160410\/boil-your-water-before-using-e-coli-present-in-portion-of-wellesley-college-water-system.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wellesley College in Massachusetts.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What we can\u2019t see <em>can<\/em>\u00a0hurt us, and public health agencies and their research labs are our best defense against further dangerous outbreaks. We saw this first-hand while outfitting the Water and Sewage Company of St. Lucia (WASCO) with their space-saving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.priorclave.com\/en-us\/autoclaves\/benchtop-autoclaves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">research-grade tabletop autoclave.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As Flint\u2019s crisis settles into litigation and drops out of the headlines, the rest of the US will be looking toward our own public works. No one wants a repeat of Flint, and hopefully that will translate to new support (and better budgets) for public health agencies of all stripes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we\u2019re all rubber-necking the Flint water-quality crisis, municipalities around the US are taking a closer look at their own aging infrastructures. 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