Public Health Significance of Waterborne Pathogens

Waterborne Disease Center

Drinking Water Treatment

Wastewater Treatment Part 1

Wastewater Treatment Part 2

Microbes in Drinking Water

Pesticides in Drinking Water

Food & Waterborne Disease in the U.S.

Water Quality Information Center

Surveillance for Waterborne-Disease Outbreaks -- United States, 1995-1996

Surveillance for Waterborne-Disease Outbreaks -- United States, 1996-1998

Inorganic Contaminants in Drinking Water

Nonpoint Source (Water Pollution Program)

Current Drinking Water Standards

A Dictionary of Technical and Legal Terms Related to Drinking Water

Drinking Water Glossary

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 Sessions 

11 & 12:

1. What is cancer?
2. Please explain "Pott's Hypothesis."
3. What are PAHs and where are they found?
4. In what three ways does the environment have a major impact upon cancer risk?
5. Please explain what is meant by the term carcinogenicity.
6. What sites in the body are affected by vinyl chloride? How about asbestos and ionizing radiation?
7. What are some of the problems of assuming that substances pose a threat to humans based upon animal studies?
8. Please explain the concept of "confounding."
9. Please explain how these approaches to epidemiological research differ: (a) cohort study, (b) case control study, (c) case control nested within a cohort study.
10. Please define the following: (a) standard mortality ratio, (b) proportional incidence ratio, and (c) standardized incident ratio.