Name the following:
Any three water-borne disease.

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The correct answer is: Typhoid, Hepatitis and Cholera.
Water-borne diseases are the ones caused by pathogenic microbes spread via contaminated water.
Typhoid, hepatitis, and cholera are potentially life-threatening infectious diseases, and are mainly transmitted through the consumption of food and drinking water that have been contaminated by the faeces or urine of subjects excreting the pathogen.

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