Reverse Zoonoses: An Assessment of the Risk to Weddell Seals at Scott Base from Clyptosporidium in Human Sewage Effluent

• Main Author: Weinstein, Phil
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Scott Base; Weddell; Antarc*; Antarctica; Weddell Seal; Weddell Seals
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14294

Cryptosporidiosis is a disease generally considered in the context of humans being exposed to animal faeces, but the converse route Of infection is also theoretically possible. In summer at Scott Base (Antarctica), about 8,000 litres of effluent per 24 hours is discharged untreated into the ocean. L...