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Sunday, June 29, 2008

WTD's (Water Transmitted Diseases)

cholera, poliomyelitis, hepatites A and E and typhoid fever are play major role to beating general people's health problem. But they can be managed easily by providing fresh drinking water.

Malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, West Nile virus or chikungunya fever are also related to water. These are transmitted by mosquitoes, and mosquitoes are borne in standing water. These are managed by some general awareness and a little stress to prevent dump water at road side cooler tanks opened sewage and fields.

The tsetse fly transmits trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness. Techniques for the prevention or elimination of vector insects allow to limit the spreading of these diseases: use of pesticides, mosquito nets, introduction of natural predators and of sterile insects, treatment of still water ponds, etc.

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