Question

Disease caused due to poor sanitation is

• A. Cancer.
• B. Typhoid.
• C. Polio.
• D. Both B and C.

Answer 1

The correct option is D Both B and C.

• Sanitation refers to public health conditions related to clean drinking water and adequate treatment and disposal of human wastes and sewage. Preventing human contact with feces is part of sanitation.
  
• Poor sanitation is linked to transmission of diseases such as cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid and polio because these diseases can be transmitted through the fecal-oral route when food or water is contaminated.
• Hence Disease caused due to poor sanitation is typhoid and polio.
• So, the correct answer is 'Both B and C'.