Water Diseases
Disease | environment | transmission | prevention | treatment | symptoms |
Bilharzia
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tropical lands
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through holes of people feet by warms
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use shoes and improve sanitation
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steroid medications
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weakness, anaemic, bladder infections
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Malaria
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wet seasons. In swamps, ponds, lakes, canlas of fresh water
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female mosquitoes drinks the blood whose contains malaria parasite
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using insect repellent, covering your arms and legs, and using a mosquito net
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antimalarial medicine
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high temperature of 38C or above, feeling hot and shivery,
headaches,
vomiting,
muscle pains and
diarrhoea
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Cholera
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in places without a clean water supply or modern sewage system, such as parts of Africa and Asia
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drinking unclean water, eating food that's been in unclean water
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wash your hands with soap and water, only drink tap water (while travelling)
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vaccination
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have bloody diarrhoea or bleeding from your bottom
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Dengue
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southeast Asia,the Caribbean,
the Indian subcontinent
South and Central, America,
Africa, the Pacific Islands,
Australia
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bite of infected mosquitoes
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use insect repellent,wear loose but protective clothing,
sleep under a mosquito net
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take paracetamol, drink plenty of fluids to prevent dehydration
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a high temperature (fever), headache, pain behind the eyes, leg cramps
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Yellow fever
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Africa, South America, Central America and the Caribbean
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mosquitoes bites
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yellow fever vaccine,using mosquito nets, wearing clothes that cover your arms and legs, and using insect repellent
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paracetamol or ibuprofen can help lower your temperature and drink plenty of fluids to avoid dehydration
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high temperature,
a headache
feeling sick or vomiting
your eyes being sensitive to light, yellowing of the skin and eyes bleeding from the mouth, nose or eyes,
vomiting blood or blood in poo
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