Outbreak! (Optional Epilogue)

Kendra: Hello, county public health office.

Natalia: Hey Kendra, it�s Natalia. Just wanted you to know that Crystal is doing fine. We all heard about the Boil Water Advisory you issued, and we�re all boiling all our water. Thanks for your work on this.

Kendra: It�s so good to hear about Crystal. Yeah, about 95% of people in Mapleville are boiling their water now, and it seems that the emergency has passed.

Natalia: I heard that the water got contaminated with cow feces. How did that happen? And how could that make people sick?

Kendra: Well, one of the municipal wells is served by a shallow aquifer that drew from a swampy area and, unfortunately, a nearby farm. Also, it seems that a second well may have been hydraulically connected to a farm pond. With the heavy rains, the wells became contaminated with animal feces. We collected samples from the wells and found several that were very contaminated with E. coli. We also visited the farms near the wells. Eleven of thirteen farms had animals with either E. coli 0157:H7 or campylobacter.

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