Cholera, a diarrheal disease that spreads to humans through the ingestion of contaminated food and water, has ravaged Haiti since a river was contaminated by foreign U.N. workers carrying the disease bacteria in the aftermath of the earthquake in 2010.
Third, the follow-up data might be contaminated by the finding that the older workers are more likely to participate in the follow-up.
Kyodo also reported Thursday that the bodies of hundreds of people killed by the quake and tsunami lay unburied near the plant because they were contaminated by radiation, and the police and morgue workers were unable to handle them safely.
We did not review studies of workers exposed to herbicides not contaminated by TCDD, agents contaminated by polychlorinated dibenzo- para-dioxins other than TCDD, or unspecified or poorly specified combinations of pesticides or herbicides.
Some Federal officials said the site at Chernobyl had apparently been so heavily contaminated by radioactive material that it would be difficult for workers to bring the accident under control, much less return the reactor to operation.
Hospital environmental surfaces, healthcare worker gowns, and patient-care items contaminated by patients infected or colonized with MRSA have been shown to pose significant risks for MRSA transmission (12, 15 ).
Workers at farm A, where eggs were contaminated by both A14-B20 and A14-B21 strains, slaughtered laying hens.
In this study, the areas of the IVT that may be contaminated by dust are evaluated to assess the level of exposure to workers during maintenance work in the HCF.
As a consequence, estimated effects are neither contaminated by unobserved time-invariant plant heterogeneity nor by self-selection of workers.
HAI commonly occur by direct transmission from individual to individual or through fomites manipulated by healthcare workers, as well as through surfaces and devices contaminated by biofilms (surgical instruments, catheters, mechanical ventilation systems, and others) [ 5, 6].
