Waterborne Diseases Types

• Abdominal pain
• Watery diarrhea
• Mild fever
• Abdominal cramps
• Paint
• Frequent stools with bloody mucus

• Shigella
  sonnei
• Shigella
  flexneri
• Shigella
  dysenteriae
• Shigella
  boydii

Shigella species spread by faecal-oral route

• Maintain the loss of body fluids by giving Oral re hydration salt solution.
• Antibiotic treatment for children and aged people
• Ampicillin
• Cotrimoxazole
• Tetracycline
• Ciprofloxacin

• Cholera is transmitted by drinking water or eating food contaminated with Vibrio cholerae.
• Floodwaters can carry V. cholerae and contaminate drinking water supplies.
• Eating raw or under cooked seafood.

• Oral re-hydration salts to replace the loss of fluids and salts.
• In severe cases antibiotics used are -
  Tetracycline
  Cotrimoxazole
  Erythromycin
  Doxycycline
  Chloramphenicol
  Furazolidone

• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Anorexia
• Fever
• Jaundice

• Transmitted by faecal-oral route due to faecal contamination of Hepatitis A virus.
• Causes Infectious Hepatitis.
• Mortality rate 0.5%

• Prevention of faecal contamination.
• Personal hygiene
• Use of Immune globulin (IG)
• Hepatitis A virus vaccine available.

• Diarrhea
• headache
• malaise
• nausea
• vomiting
• enteric fever
• Gastroenteritis

• Water-borne disease transmitted by contaminated water containing

• Prevention of faecal contamination which causes water borne disease
• Chloramphenicol

• Fever
• Chills
• Sweating
• Headaches
• Muscle pains
• Nausea
• Vomiting

• Transmission of parasite Plasmodium species from infected person to other person by the bite of female anopheles mosquito.

• Personal prophylaxis-Apply Repellent creams, use mosquito nets
• Destroying the larval, pupa and adult stages of mosquito by insecticide, biological methods, and physical methods.
• Treatment of infected person:
  • Quininederivatives
  • Acridine derivatives
  • 4 and 8 Aminoquinolines

•  High fever
•  Severe headache
•  Backache
•  Joint pains
•  Nausea
• vomiting
•  Eye pain
•  Rash

•  Dengue is transmitted by the Mosquito vector Aedes mosquito which is infected with dengue virus.
•  Spreads directly from person to person.

•  Effective mosquito control of Aedes aegypti.
  
•  Early clinical diagnosis
• Analgesics and Fluid Replacement Therapy.

•  Cough
•  Wheezing
•  Fever
•  Abdominal pain due to intestinal blockage

• Parasitic infection caused by round worm Ascaris lumbricoides.
  
•  Transmitted by eating uncooked contaminated food containing eggs of the worm.
•  Children#$#s mostly get infected by putting their hands to their mouths after playing in contaminated soil.

• Avoid contamination of water with Ascaris eggs.
• Proper disposal of night soil.
• Washing of fruits and vegetables before eating.
•  Personal hygiene of washing hands.

• Diarrhea
•  Abdominal pain
•  Malaise
• Fever
•  Nausea
•  Vomiting

• Zoonotic disease caused by Campylobacter jejuni.
  causes
  Gastroenteritis worldwide.

• Drinking chlorinated water
•  Proper sewage disposal
•  Complete cooking.
•  Personal hygiene
•  Avoid drinking raw milk.
•  Treatment includes providing Re-hydration therapy with Antibiotics.

•  Diarrhea
•  Mal-absorption of fat
•  Abdominal
•  cramps
•  Nausea
•  Loss of appetite
•  Vomiting
•  Fever

• Food and water contaminated by human and animal faeces.
•  Spread by direct contact with infected persons.
•  Poor sanitation and poor faecal - oral hygiene.

• Improved water supply.
•  Proper disposal of human faeces.
•  Maintenance of food and personal hygiene.
•  Health education.
•  Treat with drugs like-
  Metronidazole
  Tinidazole
  Quinacrine hydrochloride.