A: Diarrheal disease organisms can be transmitted ... those cultural analogs of vectors like mosquitoes as "cultural vectors." Waterborne transmission is part of a cultural vector that allows ...

Moreover, climate change expands the habitat of disease vectors like mosquitoes ... Areas experiencing severe flooding often see a surge in waterborne GI infections due to compromised sanitation.

Officials here are bracing for the spread of waterborne diseases and racing to get drinking water to people after devastating floods last week that left at least 54 people dead and millions stranded.

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Turbocharged monsoon floods are intensifying the spread of waterborne diseases in the Indian Ocean ... or food exposed to "mechanical vectors" such as flies and mosquitoes, can also spread these ...