Garza AV, Fernández SI, Badii M, Flores SA, Hauad ML, Villarreal RL

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ABSTRACT

Loma Blanca, rural town inside the district of watering 009 in the Valley of Juárez, it is located in the riverbanks of the watering channel that it not drives the residual waters treated taken place by Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. This place is in a half agricultural one that has been object of a lingering irrigation with black waters for 50 years, and that it is polluted with intestinal parasites and patogens. Las gastrointestinal infections they are of fundamental importance in the health of the inhabitants of the place, and its prevalence is probably associated to the means water and contaminated floor. To know the profile of basic reparation of Loma Blanca and to evaluate the risk to the health for exhibition to the aquatic means and the contaminated floor, a survey was applied. For their evaluation they were used the methodology Health Assessment, of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Diseases Registry, modified for evaluations that involve patogens; the Mexican official norm NOM-048-SSA1-1993; and a womb of analysis of the Department of Defense, of the United States. The result of the evaluation points out that the category of risk is high. The conclusion is based on the analysis of data on the environment, characteristic of housing, habits of consumption of water and vegetables, perception of the risk on the part of the community, and morbidity levels.

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