Flood Water Contamination Causes Disease and Cholera causes flooding [Part 1]

Flood Water Contamination Causes Disease and Cholera causes flooding - Indonesia, especially Jakarta was hit by floods. Already so many people displaced by the submerged by floods. Such a situation is obviously triggered the need for clean water. However, water is now difficult to obtain because of the water that looks clean is not necessarily free from contamination of water pollution due to flooding.

Swallowing water that has been contaminated, it will cause all sorts of serious gastrointestinal infection. Especially if you intentionally or accidentally swallow the stagnant flood water. A wide range of diseases such as cholera, tularemia, thyroid fever, and shigellosis are some diseases that can infect your body as revealed by Livestrong.

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.

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