Water quality and health in northern Canada: stored drinking water and acute gastrointestinal illness in Labrador Inuit

• Main Authors: Wright, CJ, Sargeant, JM, Edge, VL, Ford, JD, Farahbakhsh, K, RICG, Shiwak, I, Flowers, C, IHACC Research Team, Harper, SL
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Rigolet; inuit
• Online Access: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/126423/; https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/126423/8/Wright%202017%20ESPR%20AAM.pdf

One of the highest self-reported incidence rates of acute gastrointestinal illness (AGI) in the global peer-reviewed literature occurs in Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic. This high incidence of illness could be due, in part, to the consumption of contaminated water, as many northern communi...