How Can Infrastructure Help Us Stop Outbreaks? Crash Course Outbreak Science #12

When you think about the technology that helps us prevent outbreaks, what do you think of? Vaccines? Lab tests? Medications? What about toilets? That's right! Toilets are an important piece of technology that can help us prevent outbreaks! Toilets are a part of infrastructure, the important system that we'll be talking about in this episode of Crash Course Outbreak Science. We'll look at how from physical infrastructure, from toilets, to sewers, to roads, and more, creates healthier environments for us and helps us prevent and deal with outbreaks. This episode of Crash Course Outbreak Science was produced by Complexly in partnership with Operation Outbreak and the Sabeti Lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard—with generous support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Episode Sources: https://www.unwater.org/water-facts/water-sanitation-and-hygiene/ https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/public/water_treatment.html https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/62/11/1423/1745014 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(05)67314-X/fulltext https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016085 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447157/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-1059-1 https://www.path.org/articles/vaccine-cold-chain-q/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55165552 https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/605b7862c9169cbde0430522/960x0.jpg?fit=scale https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003055 https://hamiltonfraser.co.uk/knowledge/victorian-plumbing-time-bomb-for-landlords/ https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/JCM.02876-13 https://www3.epa.gov/npdes/pubs/final_sgrit_removal.pdf https://www.southernwater.co.uk/water-for-life/education/the-wastewater-process#:~:text=All%20wastewater%20follows%20the%20same,down%20sinks%20instead%20of%20binned. https://www.epa.gov/septic/how-your-septic-system-works https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0