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#sanitation — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. When I was living in Sri Lanka during Covid, I remember people didn't want to eat fish, because Indians often put dead bodies into rivers, which end up in the Bay of Bengal near Sri Lanka and into the bellies of fish.

    #srilanka #india #covid #covid19 #infection #health #publichealth #sanitation #fish #food #epidemic

  2. In the West, cyclospora infections are called an 'outbreak', but, in India, where people traditionally use farmland as a public toilet, they're very common. They develop resistance to it and avoid it by cooking most food, but it often causes 'traveller's diarrhoea' in tourists.

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j

    #west #cyclospora #diarrhoea #diarrhea #outbreak #india #fertiliser #fertilizer #farmland #toilet #tourism #cooking #food #parasite #infection #health #publichealth #sanitation