Apr 28, 2018
Water-bourne diseases
Cholera
Bacilliary dysentery
Salmonella Typhi
Hepatitis A
Poliomyelitis
Amoebic Dysentery
Cryptosporidium
Naegleria fowleri
Non-bacterial water-bourne conditions
Hep A is a picornovirus, causing infective, acute hepatitis. It is normally self-limiting (Acute). It is spread faecal-orally, replicating in the gut and becoming systemic. If it enters the liver, it can cause liver inflammation which is pretty darn unpleasant. It has a pre-ipteric phase where jaundice proliferates, and a jaundice phase, where the subject feels slightly better but the condition is worsening.