MPH Student Points Out Cracks in Water Lead Testing Systems
CPH graduate Dr. Michael Rosen (MPH 2017) is the first named author of a discussion article to appear in the July 15 issue of the journal Science of the Total Environment.
“A discussion about public health, lead and Legionella pneumophila in drinking water supplies in the United States” discusses the complex issues of lead and Legionella – the bacterium that causes Legionnaire’s disease – in U.S. drinking water systems. The paper examines the Flint, Michigan, water crisis and the spike in cases of Legionnaire’s disease there related to insufficient water treatment....