TAILIEUCHUNG - OUT OF THE GUTTER: Reducing Polluted Runoff in the District of Columbia

The hazards of methylmercury poisoning received modern international attention in 1956 when many of the residents of Minamata, Japan, became seriously ill, or died, after eating the fish and shellfish in Minamata Bay. A chemical plant that used methylmercury to manufacture plastic (acetaldehyde) was dumping methylmercury-contaminated wastes into Minamata Bay. The mercury built up or bioac- cumulated in the fish and shellfish, which were a major part of the residents’ diets. A similar tragedy unfolded in the nearby town of Nigata, Japan. Eventually, hundreds of people died, including many stillborn children, and thousands were made severely ill from eating the contaminated seafood. The official Japanese government estimate. | OUT OF THE GUTTER Reducing Polluted Runoff in the District of Columbia Principal Author James W. Woodworth Jr. The Josephine Merck Environmental Policy Fellow NRDC Contributing Authors George Aponte Clarke Blue Heron Consulting William Huang Spiegel McDiarmid Nancy Stoner NRDC Natural Resources Defense Council July 2002 Natural Resources Defense Council NRDC The Earth s Best Defense OUT OF THE GUTTER Reducing Polluted Runoff in the District of Columbia July 2002 ABOUT NRDC The Natural Resources Defense Council is a national nonprofit environmental organization with more than 500 000 members. Since 1970 our lawyers scientists and other environmental specialists have been working to protect the world s natural resources and improve the quality of the human environment. NRDC has offices in New York City Washington . Los Angeles and San Francisco. Visit us on the World Wide Web at . ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Natural Resources Defense Council would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Watershed Protection Division of the Washington . Department of Health as well as The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation The Davis Family Trust for Clean Water The Mary Jean Smeal Clean Water Fund and The Summit Fund of Washington. In addition the authors would like to thank William Huang at Spiegel McDiarmid for his excellent pro bono assistance. Finally this report would not be possible without the support of NRDC s members who now number more than 500 000. NRDC Reports Manager Emily Cousins NRDC President John Adams Editor Dana Nadel Foley NRDC Executive Director Frances Beinecke Production Bonnie Greenfield NRDC Director of Communications Alan Metrick Cover Design Jenkins Page Copyright 2002 by the Natural Resources Defense Council. For additional copies of this report send plus shipping and handling to NRDC Publications Department 40 West 20th Street New York NY 10011. California residents must add sales .

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• Sero Prevalence
• Female Sex Workers
• Andhra Pradesh
• Knowledge
• Attitude and Behaviour
• Sexually Transmitted
• Bovine herpesvirus 1
• Cattle and buffalo
• Emphasis on seroprevalence
• Seroprevalence of BoHV 1
• Country to know the seroprevalence
• Seroprevalence studies of Brucellosis
• Seroprevalence studies
• Brucellosis among human
• Different serological tests
• Persons while sex wise males
• Seroprevalence of chikungunya
• Febrile patients
• Seroprevalence of chikungunya cases
• Chikungunya cases
• Gender wise distribution
• Seroprevalence of leptospirosis
• Leptospirosis in animals
• Seroprevalence of leptospirosis in animals
• Humans including prevalent serovars
• Leptospira is being highlighted
• Age wise seroprevalence
• Seropositivity for toxoplasma
• Rubella among torch infections
• Women with bad obstetric history
• Obstetric history
• Aedes mosquito
• Capture ELISA
• Seroprevalence of dengue
• Dengue in a tertiary care hospital
• Tertiary care hospital
• Hepatitis B
• ICTC at tertiary care centre
• Tertiary care centre
• Seroprevalence of hepatitis B
• Hepatitis B in HIV positive cases
• Rapid plate test
• Salmonellosis in bovine herds
• Seroprevalence of salmonellosis
• Diarrheic animals
• Chickaballapur classifying animals
• Risk factors
• Caprine Brucellosis in Punjab
• Serum samples collected randomly
• Goats were tested by RBPT
• Helicobacter pylori
• Blood donors
• Healthy blood donors
• Seroprevalence of helicobacter pylori
• Believed to persist lifelong
• Toxoplasma gondii
• IgG antibody
• Healthy voluntary blood donors
• Seroprevalence of igg antibodies
• Brucella melitensis
• Small ruminants
• Seroprevalence of brucella melitensis
• Humans in anand region
• Enzyme linked immunosorbent
• Hepatitis C
• Anti HCV
• HCV among healthy blood donors
• Seroprevalence of HBV
• Seroprevalence of measles antibodies
• Measles antibodies
• Young adults
• Completed months of age
• Seroprevalence of hepatitis B virus
• Hepatitis B virus
• Multitransfused patients
• Special reference
• Occult hepatitis B virus infection
• Aborted goats in Kerala
• Aborted goats
• Multiple serovars among goats
• Goats with history
• HIV Prevalence
• General population attending
• Seroprevalence of HIV
• HIV infection is more
• Weil Felix test
• Rickettsial infections
• Tertiary care center in south India
• Seroprevalence of rickettsial infections
• Rural southern India
• Blood transfusion
• C virus
• Seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis
• Antenatal women
• Bad obstetric history
• Commercial ELISA kit
• Pregnant women
• Around Kakinada Town
• Seroprevalence of TORCH infections
• TORCH infections in pregnant women
• Sero prevalance
• Indirect ELISA
• Seroprevalence of goatpox in Assam
• Sero prevalence of goatpox
• Goat population of Assam
• Seroprevalence of brucellosis
• Brucellosis in large
• Small ruminants in Chhattisgarh state
• Large ruminants in state
• Determine the prevalence of brucellosis
• Enzyme linked immune electrotransfer blot
• Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay
• Human cysticercosis
• Tertiary care center
• Seroprevalence of human cysticercosis
• Softwood grafting
• Shade house
• Open condition
• Seroprevalence of syphilis
• Various patient groups attending