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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

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Water no dirt no germs

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  1. Water no dirt no germs The toilet paper challenge

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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 • YouTube - The Diarrhoea Song - Dig toilets, Not graves

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