NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Typhoid fever (TF) and cholera are potentially life-threatening infectious diseases, and are mainly transmitted through the consumption of food, drink or water that have been contaminated by the feces or urine of subjects excreting the pathogen.

Detailed explanation-2: -Water and health Contaminated water and poor sanitation are linked to transmission of diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid and polio.

Detailed explanation-3: -Swimming in contaminated water, such as lakes or pools, is another way you might catch dysentery. You can sometimes carry the bug that causes dysentery for weeks or years without knowing it. You can still pass the infection to other people, even if you don’t have symptoms.

Detailed explanation-4: -Many diarrheal diseases spread through unsafe water and sanitation. These conditions, along with poor hygiene, can also cause the deadly diseases cholera and typhoid fever. Poor WASH conditions are also linked to emerging challenges such as extensively drug-resistant typhoid fever.