He said, “If people stop having access to clean water, then we are going to suffer consequences of water-borne diseases like cholera, typhoid, and sleeping sickness. Those are the conditions ...

Gastroenteritis, typhoid and diarrhoea are just of the ... With monsoon, come a number of waterborne diseases. These diseases spread more during floods through contaminated water and food.

A cook at a Kanpur eatery en route to Prayag Raj was caught kneading dough with contaminated water in unhygienic conditions, ...

Chennai: Water-borne diseases, mostly caused by contaminated water and food, peaked in the city in Dec, indicating poor ...

As people are forced to drink stagnant, contaminated water after the Pakistan floods, waterborne diseases are taking significant hold. Since July, more than 660,120 people have reported acute, watery ...

He says Bwaise being a wetland and slum floods whenever it rains, which exposes its residents to waterborne diseases such as cholera and typhoid. Sharifa Kizza, a mother of six, has lived in ...

Waste dumping and spread of communicable diseases are closely associated with each other. Authorities fear that this will also lead to an increase in rodent population in the district, which has ...

During the monsoon season, the risk of waterborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid fever, and hepatitis A increases, particularly affecting children who have developed immune systems. These ...

With overcrowded shelters and unsanitary conditions worsening by the day, the risk of a cholera outbreak and other waterborne diseases is escalating, further endangering an already vulnerable ...

[Collins Oduor, Standard] Nairobi residents risk contracting waterborne diseases like cholera, typhoid and diarrhoea due to floods caused by ongoing rains. Residents lamented that the poor urban ...

At the time, Easwary did not realise that her daughter, like many others in their flood-stricken community, had unknowingly been exposed to a waterborne disease. It was the monsoon season in the ...

He says, “We expect children to take home these messages and have communities there also practise good hygiene practises to prevent waterborne diseases among them cholera, typhoid and scabies.