waterborne disease
Contamination through drinking
A waterborne disease is an illness transmitted through contaminated water—typically from drinking, bathing, or contact with infected sources.
Cholera, typhoid, and dysentery are classic examples, spread when sewage contaminates water supplies.
Waterborne diseases remain a leading cause of death in regions without clean water infrastructure.
- diarrheaFrequent liquid bowel movements
- choleraBacterial disease causing fatal dehydration
- feverElevated body temperature
- giardiasisProtozoan intestinal infection
- typhoidSalmonella-caused systemic infection
refugee camps · developing countries · flood waters · boil advisory · leptospirosis · well · nausea · dehydration · sewage · chlorination · outbreak · public health crisis · dysentery · norovirus · handwashing · protozoa · intestinal worms · rivers
- public healthimmunization, health education, epidemiology, community health, health policy
- choleracholera vaccine, diarrhea, rehydration, fecal-oral, outbreak
- water healthcholera, typhoid, dysentery, diarrhea, hygiene
- tropical healthmalaria, dengue, dengue fever, cholera, typhoid
- Water Microbiologycoliform, E. coli, biofilm, biofilms, cyanobacteria
- environmental harmair pollution, pollution, oil spills, acid rain, deforestation
waterborne diseaseairborne disease
Pathogen spread by inhalation
respiratory infection · mosquito-borne disease · tick-borne disease · bloodborne disease · sexually transmitted disease
waterborne diseasegenetic disorder
Abnormality in inherited code
hereditary disease · autoimmune disease · degenerative disease · metabolic disorder · lifestyle disease