Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Solid waste disposal and control-
The inadequate and insanitary disposal of infected human faeces leads to the contamination of the ground and of sources of water. It provides the sites and the opportunity for certain species of files and mosquitoes to lay their eggs, to breed, or to feed on the exposed material and to carry infection. It also attracts domestic animals, rodents which apread the faeces and also the potential for the diseases. In addition, it intolerable nuisance of odour and sight. There are number of communibale and noncommunibale diseases related to excreta and waste water. Major communicable diseases are intenstinal infections and helminth infestations, cholera, typhoid, paratyphoid, dysentery and diarrhea, hookworm, schistosomiasis and filariasis. Some of pathogenic organisms found in faeces, urine etc.
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