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List of Diseases Caused By Water Pollution

Are many diseases that can deliver for the common water? The worldwide are: salmonellosis, Arsenicosis, diarrhea; SO as cholera, schistosomiasis, dengue fever and Legionnaire's disease.
Water-borne diseases
Causes can contaminate water
Dead animals, animal and human feces that have some microorganism, sewage, sludge, chemical and industrial waste plastics. In recent years the incidence of water as a transmitting agent of disease is increasing.
In developed countries, 4/5 of all diseases are caused or waterborne. Because diarrhea is a leading cause of death in developing countries especially among children.
About 6.1 billion people lack access to potable water in the world. Some 8.4 billion people lack adequate sanitation. Access to safe water and adequate sanitation and hygiene are vital to health. Millions of people get diseases through water and die especially in third world countries.
Water-borne diseases
COMMON DISEASES waterborne
By number of people who suffer around the world include:
Schistosomiasis
According to the World Health Organization (WHO). In the world more than 246 million people infected with schist soma and helminths, some 20 million suffer severe consequences of this infection. The most common form of transmission is through l bathroom and contact with water in ponds with infected snails that are reservoirs of these parasites. Although esquistosomatosis usually not fatal if it causes incapacitating fevers and let the weak person to perform any work.
Malaria
Or malaria is transmitted by a parasite (Plasmodium) that spread through the bite of the Anopheles mosquito. It affects 500 million people worldwide and more than a million of these people dies victim of the disease. A high percentage of the dead are children under five. The most affected areas are countries such as sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Latin America.
Diarrheal diseases
Such as cholera. Water and poor sanitation are key to the transmission of diarrheal diseases factors. These factors cause an estimated 94% d cases 4,000 million cases of diarrhea in the world.
WHO stresses such as children under 5 years are most affected by diarrhea and represent 90% of annual deaths from diarrheal diseases. Although progress is being made in many of the affected countries to improve access to clean water and sanitation, there is still much to do as there are over 6.1 billion people without access to safe drinking water and about 8.4 accesses to water sanitation.
Water-borne diseases
The Arsenicosis
The Arsenicosis arsenic poisoning is one of the forms of contact is through water that has high levels of this substance. In Bangladesh about 35 million people are exposed daily to high levels of arsenic in drinking water. This endangers their health and reduces their life expectancy.
The problem comes from the bedrock of the Brahmaputra river is rich in arsenic. This substance leaks into groundwater reaching the surface by thousands of tube wells, where people use the water for drinking or bathing. In addition, these crops are irrigated with arsenic-rich waters and therefore this dangerous substance in varying degrees.
The presence of arsenic in drinking water has become so high that the same World Health Organization warned of Bangladesh as the largest case of poisoning of a population in recorded history.

List of diseases directly or indirectly by the water
  • Anemia
  • Arsenicosis
  • Ascariasis
  • Botulism
  • Campylobacteriosis
  • Anger
  • Cryptosporiodiosis
  • Cyanobacterial toxins
  • Dengue
  • Diarrhea
  • Dracunculiasis
  • Schistosomiasis
  • Fluorosis
  • Giardiasis
  • Hepatitis (A, E)
  • Ankylostomiasis
  • Japanese encephalitis
  • Lead poisoning
  • Legionellosis
  • Leptospirosis
  • Lymphatic filariasis
  • Malaria
  • Malnutrition
  • Methemoglobinemia
  • Onchocerciasis
  • Polio
  • Ring Worm or Tinea
  • Scabies
  • Trachoma
  • Trichuriasis
  • Typhoid fever

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