PODCAST: Infectious Waterborne Disease in the United States

Sarah Collier, a CDC epidemiologist, and Sarah Gregory discuss the health burden of waterborne disease in the United States.

Excerpt from podcast transcript:

[Sara Gregory] How many people get sick and how many people die each year from these waterborne germs?

[Sara Collier] We estimated that about 7.2 million people get sick from waterborne germs every year in the U.S., so that’s about 1 in 44 every year. And 6,600 of these people die. And we also estimated that these germs are responsible for 600,000 emergency department visits and about 120,000 hospitalizations.

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