Estimating the global burden of thalassogenic diseases: Human infectious diseases caused by wastewater pollution of the marine environment

Article presents a preliminary attempt at obtaining an order-of-magnitude estimate of the global burden of disease (GBD) of human infectious diseases associated with swimming/bathing in coastal waters polluted by wastewater, and eating raw or lightly steamed filter-feeding shellfish harvested from such waters. Such diseases will be termed thalassogenic - caused by the sea. (from Abstract)