Class | Route Cause | Disease |
Water-borne | Drinking contaminated water | Cholera, Amoebic dysentery, Bacillary dysentery (shigellosis), Cryptosporidiosis, Typhoid, Giardiasis, Paratyphoid, Balantidiasis, Salmonellosis, Campylobacter enteritis, Rotavirus diarrhoea, E. coli diarrhoea, Hepatitis A, Leptospirosis and Poliomyelitis [21] [22] [24] . |
Water-Washed | Lack of clean water for washing. | Scabies, Typhus, Yaws, Relapsing fever, Impetigo, Trachoma, Conjunctivitis and Skin ulcers. |
Water-Based | Host organisms that develop to human parasites. | Schistosomiasis, Dracunculiasis, Paragonimiasis and Clonorchiasis. |
Insect-Vector | Organisms that need water to breed. | Mosquito-borne diseases; Malaria, Yellow fever, Dengue fever, Filariasis and Fly-borne diseases; Onchocerciasis (river-blindness), Trypanosomiasis (West African sleeping sickness), Leishmaniosis (Kala-azar), Loiasis, [21] |