Flood Water Contamination Causes Disease and Cholera causes flooding [Part 2]

Flood Water Contamination Causes Disease and Cholera causes flooding - Contaminated water is the water that is usually mixed with dirt or fluids of the human body that are experiencing infectious diseases. If the contaminated waterways, especially when there is flooding, the more meluaslah infection from disease. One of the diseases caused by contaminated water is called shigellosis. This disease is the most severe type of dysentery in which an infectious inflammation of the stomach.

Usually the disease is caused by a bacterium called topical dysentarie shigella. This bacterium is a pathogen that is very dangerous because it produces powerful toxins, known as Shiga toxin that can damage the intestines. Patients infected with these bacteria, usually have fever and abdominal pain.

Others with another shigella is with Francisella tularensis is the cause of the disease tularemia. Tularemia is a dangerous contagious disease that causes skin ulcers, swollen lymph nodes and pain, chills and fatigue. Tularemia can infect humans through the bites of arthropods as well as through the consumption of contaminated water. Tularemia is a disease that can be treated with antibiotics, however, if not treated, the disease can be fatal.

Clean water will be increasingly difficult to come by with the coming flood. In some cases, not a few citizens who risked consuming flood waters. They do not know if in fact they consume contaminated water can cause so many diseases.

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