Developed from a workshop. Published on behalf of the World Health Organization. "World Health Organization ; United States Environmental Protection Agency." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Expert consensus : expert meeting group report -- Emerging zoonotic diseases and water -- What are the criteria for determining whether a disease is zoonotic and water related? -- Impacts of anthropogenic and environmental factors on the distribution of zoonoses -- The control envelope and risk management -- Tropical organisms in Asia/Africa/South America -- Incidence of the major zoonotic diseases transmitted by water in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean -- Waterborne outbreaks caused by zoonotic pathogens in the USA -- Symptoms, treatments, and health consequences of waterborne zoonotic diseases -- Epidemiological studies and surveillance -- Zoonoses in Scotland -- food, water, or contact? -- Potential public health risk of Campylobacter and other zoonotic waterborne infections in New Zealand. Verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli and other diarrhoeagenic E. coli -- Salmonella and other enteric organisms -- Prospects of waterborne viral zoonoses -- Waterborne zoonotic protozoa -- Cyclosporiasis -- Major helminth zoonoses in water -- Human fascioliasis -- Leptospirosis and other potential zoonoses in water -- Managing risk of waterborne zoonotic disease through water quality surveillance -- Faecal source identification -- Rapid methods for the detection and enumeration of microorganisms in water -- Control of zoonotic waterborne pathogens in animal reservoirs -- Control of zoonotic pathogens in animal wastes -- Control of zoonotic diseases in drinking-water -- A regulatory perspective on zoonotic pathogens in water -- The Stockholm framework for guidelines for microbial contaminants in drinking-water -- Quantitative microbial risk assessment issues -- Waterborne zoonoses : emerging pathogens and emerging patterns of infection. Provides a critical and balanced assessment of current knowledge about waterborne zoonoses and identifies strategies and research needs for anticipating and controlling future emerging water-related diseases.