Wastewater management in a Nigerian leper colony
(2011)
Journal Article
Khatib, J. M., Millington, J. A., Coker, M. E., Sridhar, M. K., Coker, A. O., Oluremi, J. R., …Booth, C. (2011). Wastewater management in a Nigerian leper colony. Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management, 19(3), 260-269. https://doi.org/10.3846/16486897.2011.603500
Wastewater from infected leprosy patients is expected to contain considerably higher concentrations of pathogens than standard domestic wastewater and, therefore, is more infectious. Isolation of lepers' is thought to prevent the spread of a wide ran... Read More about Wastewater management in a Nigerian leper colony.