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Cryptosporidium

Cryptosporidium. Cryptosporidiosis is also known as crypto, is a parasitic disease caused by Cryptosporodium , a protozoan parasite of the tribe Apiocomplexa. How it works. Symptoms!.

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Cryptosporidium

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  1. Cryptosporidium Cryptosporidiosis is also known as crypto, is a parasitic disease caused by Cryptosporodium, a protozoan parasite of the tribe Apiocomplexa.

  2. How it works

  3. Symptoms! • The symptoms manifests itself from two to ten days after infection, with an average of seven days and can last up to two weeks, or in some cases up to a month. Other symptoms include nausea, vomiting and dehydration. The individuals who are asytomatiska (have no symptoms) are still infectious and can therefore transmit the infection to others. Even after symptoms have finally subsided, an individual remains infectious for a few weeks.

  4. The Parasitesproliferation When Cryptosporidium spreads beyond the intestine, especially in patients with AIDS, it can reach the lungs, middle ear, pancreas and stomach.The parasite can also infect the biliary tract.Cryptosporidiosis occurs worldwide. It causes 50.8% of the water-borne diseases attributed to parasites

  5. some of the numerous cases! 1987 was 13,000 people in Carrolton, Georgia, ill with cryptosporidiosis. This was the first report on the spread of a municipal water systems that met all state and federal standards for drinking water. In March 2007, there were a suspected outbreak in Galway, Ireland. The source for much of the region, Lough Corrib, was suspected of being infected by the parasite. The population of 90,000 people, including areas for both Galway city and surrounding counties were advised to boil water before drinking, cooking and brushing teeth. On 21 March 2007 confirmed that the city and the county's water supply was contaminated by the parasite. Area's water supply finally got an approval on 20 August, five months after the Cryptospridum first detected. Approximately 240 known cases of disease-bearing persons were reported, but according to experts, the real figure would have been right up to 5000. In November 2010 reported 4500 cases of cryptosporidiosis in Ostersund. The source of contamination is tap water. Based on the number of cases, estimates the local authorities, the total number affected to between 3000-9000 people.

  6. Purification of the drinking water • Cryptosporidium is highlyresistant to klordesinfiktion, with enough high concentrations and contact time, disabledCryptosporidium by chlorinedioxide and ozonetreatment. The therequiredlevels of chlorinenormallypreclude the use of chlorinedisinfection as a reliable method to controlCryptosporidium in drinking water. Ultraviolet (UV) light treatment at relativelylowdosesinactivateCryptosporidium. Water Research Foundation-paid research discovered the original UV'sability to inactivateCryptosporidium.

  7. Distribution in Sweden In year 2000 came the first wave of cryptosporidium in Sweden's history. In Ostersund they found the parasite Cryptosporidium in the water and then they had to boil their water for about 3 months before the problem was fixt. The year 2011 it was skellefteå who got to be the other city in swedens history to experienced the cryptosporidium parasite, it took about one-two months for skellefteå to get their water purified.

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