Question

Water pollution occurs when harmful substances like microorganisms contaminate a water body degrading the water quality and rendering it toxic to humans or for the environment. Which one of the following diseases is NOT due to the contamination of water?
1. Malaria
2. Tuberculosis
3. Cholera
4. Typhoid

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Tuberculosis

The correct answer is Tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis

• Tuberculosis is an air-borne disease.
• Tuberculosis caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is spread person-to-person through the air.
• Tuberculosis is a contagious infection that usually attacks our lungs.
• It can also spread to other parts of your body, like your brain and spine.
• The symptoms of Tuberculosis are fever, chest pain, cough, loss of appetite, tiredness, and headache.

• Tuberculosis is curable and preventable.

 

Malaria

• Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by plasmodium parasites.
• Malaria is transmitted to people through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes.
• The symptoms of Malaria are fever, vomiting, tiredness, and headache.
• Malaria is curable and preventable.

Cholera

• Cholera is a water-borne disease.
• Cholera is caused by the bacterium Vibrio Cholerae.
• This bacteria is usually found in food or water contaminated by the feces of an infected person.
• This is most likely to happen when sewage water mixes with a source of drinking water.
• Drinking water after boiling helps to prevent this infection.
• The symptoms of Cholera are vomiting, Diarrohea, nausea, dehydration, thirst, low blood pressure, muscle cramps.

Typhoid

• Typhoid is caused by the bacterium Salmonella typhi.
• Typhoid can easily spread through contaminated water and food.
• Typhoid is a water-borne disease.
• The symptoms of Typhoid are high fever, vomiting, Diarrohea, nausea, and headache.

•   World Tuberculosis day - 24^th March.
• World Malaria day - 25^th April.