Transcript Water no dirt no germs

Water no dirt no
germs
The toilet paper
challenge
Microbe Transmission
• Water
- Microbes can feed
off the pollution within
water.
- If water is not cleaned,
the microbes can
reproduce and enter
the body when the
water is drunk.
Water Borne Diseases
• Cholera
- Is known and feared throughout the
developing world.
- The bacteria can last for up to three
weeks in soil
- Is spread by contaminated water,
food and occasionally by person to
person contact.
- Up to 14 litres of diarrhoea can by passed
in one day.
- Death occurs within 24 hours.
Water Borne Disease
• Dysentery
- Causes fever, abdominal pain,
nausea, cramping and severe,
frequent, watery diarrhoea that can
contain blood, mucus and pus.
- bacteria which enter the body
through contaminated drinking water,
food or flies which then infect the large
intestine
It can be spread between people especially young children.
Water Borne Diseases
• Typhoid
- fever, severe headache, nausea and
constipation. Later it is accompanied
by diarrhoea, a rash and other
complications
- It is contracted when people drink
water or eat food infected with a
bacterium called Salmonella Typhi
found in human waste.
Factfile
• Children in developing countries commonly
carry up to 1000 hookworms, roundworms
and whipworms at a time causing anaemia,
stunted growth and other debilitating
conditions.
• One gram of faeces can contain 10,000,000
viruses, 1,000,000 bacteria, 1000 parasite
cysts and 100 parasite eggs.
• Improved sanitation can help eradicate
diseases associated with these microbes
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