Maharashtra BoardEnglish MediumSTD 8ScienceHealth and Diseases5 Marks
Question
Drinking boiled and filtered water.(What can be achieved can be prevented)
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Answer
When water is boiled, all the disease causing pathogens present in it are killed.
Different diseases like cholera, enteritis, diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis, typhoid are caused by such water-borne pathogens.
If we boil the water we are protected against all such diseases.
If the i water is filtered we can avoid infections from nematode Dracunculus which causes Naru. By boiling and filtering water, even the epidemics by such infectious diseases can be controlled.
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