difference between water borne diseases and Airborn diseases
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Water borne diseases occurs if the excreta from someone suffering from a infectious gut diseases, such as Cholera, get mixed with drinking water used by people living nearby. The Cholera causing microbes will enter new hosts through the water they drink and cause disease in them. Such diseases are much more likely to spread in the absense of safe supplies of drinking water.
Airborne disease occurs through the little droplets thrown out by an infected person who sneezes are coughs. Someone standing close by and breathe in this droplets, and the microbes get a change to start a new infection. Examples of such diseases that spread through the air are the common cold, pneumonia and tuberculosis.
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Differentiate between waterborne and airborne disease.
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Airborne disease
i) the disease that can be spread by air are known as airborne diseases.
ii) influenza is the best example of this disease.
Waterborne disease
i) the diseases that can be spread through water are known as waterborne diseases.
ii) contaminated water is the host of several pathogens.
iii) Typhoid is the best example of this disease.