waterborne illness
Sickness from water
A waterborne illness is a disease transmitted through contaminated water—typically from drinking, swimming, or contact with water containing harmful microorganisms or toxins.
Cholera, typhoid, and dysentery are classic examples.
Boil advisories are issued when waterborne illness becomes a risk.
The term appears frequently in public health contexts discussing sanitation and water quality.
- contaminatedMade impure by contact
- choleraBacterial disease causing fatal dehydration
- dysenteryBloody intestinal infection
- typhoidSalmonella-caused systemic infection
- parasitesOrganisms feeding off hosts
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- choleracholera vaccine, diarrhea, rehydration, waterborne disease, fecal-oral
- Environmental Healthair pollution, toxic exposure, hazardous waste, emissions, lead poisoning
- pollution effectsdead zones, fish kills, algal blooms, eutrophication, oxygen depletion
- water healthwaterborne disease, waterborne diseases, cholera, typhoid, dysentery
- water pollutionsewage, industrial waste, contaminants, algal bloom, toxic waste
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Pathogen spread by inhalation
respiratory infection · tick-borne disease · foodborne illness · zoonotic disease · droplet transmission
waterborne illnesswater safety
Preventing drowning and accidents
potable water · safe drinking water · water sanitation · hydration · water purity
waterborne illnessgenetic disorder
Abnormality in inherited code
hereditary disease · autoimmune disease · congenital condition · degenerative disease · metabolic disorder
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