Question

Which of the following is not a water borne disease?
a. Diarrhea
b. Gastroenteritis
c. Typhoid
d. All

Answer 1

Hint: We know that the diseases which are caused by pathogenic microbes are called Water-borne diseases. These pathogenic microbes spread diseases to people using contaminated water. According to the recent research, several pathogenic microorganisms which were formerly unknown to this world, have become the attention of chief research by revealing many glasses of waterborne disease.

Complete answer:
Among the given choices,
- Typhoid is not a disease that is water-borne. It is caused by bacteria called Salmonella typhi.
- This bacterium is said to exist in rodents and pests, precisely body lice and ticks. We can say that it is a form of relapsing fever that is acquired from ticks that is different from that assimilated from body lice to some extent.
- In countless areas in this world, water from the sources of the hand -pumps and other foundations is polluted and filthy.
- Water prone diseases are spread due to polluted water. In areas where it is deficient in proper water supply, several diseases particularly Diarrhea, gastroenteritis, typhoid, dysentery are said to be very common.
- Diarrhea is caused by consuming contaminated water, mostly because of the virus present on it.
- Gastroenteritis is caused when people consume the water which came into the contact of stools of infected people.

Hence, the correct answer is option (D).

Note: As we know already, the poor quality of water turns out to be inevitable when water comes to be polluted with human waste, animal waste, and industrial waste, etc.
Cooking food items or drinking with such contaminated water, in turn, leads to water borne illnesses and infections such as giardiasis, toxoplasmosis, and amoebiasis. Such contaminated water can convey diseases such as Hepatitis A and E, bacteria like E. coli resulting in a plague. However, diseases like Typhoid are not caused because of this reason.