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    What Are Water-Borne Diseases?: Hepatitis A Cholera

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    Waterborne diseases are caused by pathogenic microorganisms transmitted through contaminated fresh water. They are responsible for about 1.8 million deaths annually worldwide. In the Philippines, uncontrolled deforestation and waste dumping cause floods and water pollution, leading to high incidence of diseases like hepatitis A, cholera, leptospirosis, schistosomiasis, and typhoid fever. Hepatitis A is transmitted through contaminated food or water and causes liver infection. Cholera produces severe diarrhea and vomiting and can kill within hours if untreated. Leptospirosis is contracted from contact with contaminated water and urine and may cause kidney or liver failure. Schistosomiasis is transmitted through skin contact with contaminated water and the

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    Waterborne diseases are caused by pathogenic microorganisms transmitted through contaminated fresh water. They are responsible for about 1.8 million deaths annually worldwide. In the Philippines, uncontrolled deforestation and waste dumping cause floods and water pollution, leading to high incidence of diseases like hepatitis A, cholera, leptospirosis, schistosomiasis, and typhoid fever. Hepatitis A is transmitted through contaminated food or water and causes liver infection. Cholera produces severe diarrhea and vomiting and can kill within hours if untreated. Leptospirosis is contracted from contact with contaminated water and urine and may cause kidney or liver failure. Schistosomiasis is transmitted through skin contact with contaminated water and the

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    Waterborne diseases are caused by pathogenic microorganisms transmitted through contaminated fresh water. They are responsible for about 1.8 million deaths annually worldwide. In the Philippines, uncontrolled deforestation and waste dumping cause floods and water pollution, leading to high incidence of diseases like hepatitis A, cholera, leptospirosis, schistosomiasis, and typhoid fever. Hepatitis A is transmitted through contaminated food or water and causes liver infection. Cholera produces severe diarrhea and vomiting and can kill within hours if untreated. Leptospirosis is contracted from contact with contaminated water and urine and may cause kidney or liver failure. Schistosomiasis is transmitted through skin contact with contaminated water and the

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    Whats in your Water?

    : Common Water-Borne Diseases


    What are water-borne diseases?
    Waterborne diseases are caused by
    pathogenic microorganisms that most
    commonly are transmitted in contaminated
    fresh water. Infection commonly results
    during bathing, washing, drinking, in the
    preparation of food, or the consumption of
    food thus infected. Various forms of
    waterborne diarrheal disease probably are
    the most prominent examples, and affect
    mainly children in developing countries.
    Such diseases account for an estimated
    4.1% of the total global burden of disease,
    and cause about 1.8 million human deaths
    annually. The World Health Organization
    estimates that 88% of that burden is
    attributable to unsafe water supply,
    sanitation and hygiene.

    Incidence in the Philippines:


    Locally, environment current issues,
    like uncontrolled deforestation especially in
    watershed area and unrestrained dumping
    or wastes cause floods. Floods would
    cause water pollution in large areas leading
    to high incidence of waterborne diseases
    such as:

    HEPATITIS A
    What it is: A highly contagious liver
    disease caused when a person eats food or
    drinks water contaminated with the feces of an
    infected person. According to WHO, The
    disease is closely associated with a lack of safe
    water, inadequate sanitation and poor personal
    hygiene.
    What it does: Unlike hepatitis B and C,
    hepatitis A does not cause chronic liver failure.
    Expect fatigue, abdominal pain especially
    beneath your right lower ribs, and loss of
    appetite, dark urine, muscle pain, jaundice, and
    low-grade fever. Symptoms last from less than
    2 months to 6 months.

    CHOLERA
    What it is: An extremely dangerous
    but easily treatable bacterial disease that
    the World Health Organization says is
    linked to inadequate environmental
    management. Examples include urban
    slums and refugee camps where
    minimum requirements of clean water
    and sanitation are not met.
    What it does: Cholera can kill within
    hours if left untreated. It can cause
    severe watery diarrhea, vomiting and liver
    failure.

    SCHISTOSOMIASIS

    What it is: Caused by parasitic


    trematode flatworm Schistosoma; fresh
    LEPTOSPIROSIS
    water snails act as intermediate host and
    What it is: An infectious disease caused
    release larval form of parasite that
    by an organism passed from animals to
    penetrates the skin of people exposed to
    humans, often by coming in contact with water
    contaminated water; worms mature and
    contaminated with the urine of cattle, pigs, rats,
    reproduce in the blood vessels, liver,
    cats and dogs.
    kidneys, and intestines releasing eggs,
    What it does: Causes mild, flu-like
    which become trapped in tissues
    symptoms that disappear in 5-7 days. Severe
    triggering an immune response
    complications may result in kidney failure, liver
    What it does: It may manifest as
    dysfunction, pneumonitis and damage to the
    either urinary or intestinal disease
    circulatory system.
    resulting in decreased work or learning
    capacity; mortality, while generally low,
    may occur in advanced cases usually due
    TYPHOID FEVER
    to bladder cancer.
    What it is: A life-threatening bacterial disease transmitted by eating food or
    drinking water contaminated by the feces or urine of infected people.
    What it does: Causes high sustained fever of 39-40C. Complications include
    intestinal bleeding, which, according to mayoclinic.com, is signaled by a sudden drop in
    blood pressure, shock and blood in your stool. It can also cause pneumonia, meningitis
    and delirium, among others.

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