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Floods and Foods as Potential Carriers of Disease Between Urban and Rural Areas

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Flood is one of the most common natural disasters which affect human life around the world. Floods not only threaten people’s lives, but they also bring additional risks for diseases resulted from exposure to contaminated floodwater. This chapter reviews the literature on the impact of floods on human health, demonstrating the significance of indirect route of exposure in health risk management, mainly via food contamination induced by floods, as well as direct exposure route (i.e., intake of contaminants in floodwater). Based on the literature review, we hypothesize that floods and foods play important roles as potential carriers of disease or health risk agents between urban and rural areas.

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  1. Department of Food, Life and Environmental Sciences, Yamagata University, Tsuruoka, Yamagata, Japan

    Gia Thanh Nguyen & Toru Watanabe

  2. Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, College of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hue University, Hue City, Vietnam

    Gia Thanh Nguyen

  3. Faculty of Information Networking for Innovation and Design, Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan

    Jian Pu

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Nguyen, G.T., Pu, J., Watanabe, T. (2019). Floods and Foods as Potential Carriers of Disease Between Urban and Rural Areas. In: Watanabe, T., Watanabe, C. (eds) Health in Ecological Perspectives in the Anthropocene. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2526-7_11

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