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Animal Waste, Water Quality and Human Health

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Zoonotic waterborne pathogen loads in livestock 91was also similar among the cattle, sheep, <strong>and</strong> pigs (ranging from 4 × 10 4 to 2 × 10 5 )<strong>and</strong> ducks, geese, gulls, <strong>and</strong> pigeons (ranging from 6 × 10 4 to 2 × 10 5 ).Interestingly, poultry (the most commonly implicated source of the pathogen forhumans) had the lowest average number of Campylobacter CFU/g of faeces of1×10 2 . With the exception of poultry, all positive individuals among animalgroups shed 10 2 CFU/g or fewer Campylobacter in their faeces <strong>and</strong> a minority(

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