Waterborne diseases cost over $500 million in the US each year!

What's in YOUR drinking water?

There's good news and there's bad news. Which would you like first? Ok, we'll start with the bad news...

Research presented on July 14 at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases indicated that hospitalizations for common waterborne diseases cost the U.S. healthcare system as much as $539 million annually, according to a press release.

Using data from a large insurance claims database between 2004 and 2007, Michael Beach of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and his colleagues estimated the hospitalization cost of several common waterborne diseases in the United States, including cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis.

Total estimated costs for hospitalization for the diseases were $154-539 million, including $44-147 million in direct government payments for Medicare and Medicaid.

"When people think about these diseases, they usually think of a simple case of diarrhea, which is a nuisance but quickly goes away. However, these infections can cause severe illness that often result in hospital stays of more than a week, which can quickly drive up health care costs," Beach says.

Other symptoms can include rashes, eye and ear infections and respiratory or neurological symptoms and can even be fatal.

“These cost data highlight that water-related diseases pose not only a physical burden to the thousands of people sickened by them each year, but also a substantial burden in healthcare costs, including direct government payments through Medicare and Medicaid,” said Beach.

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