Name three diseases that can be caused by infected food or water.

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Communicable disease:
The diseases that can be caused by infected food or water is known as a communicable disease.
Communicable diseases are infectious diseases that are caused by a number of disease-causing organisms called pathogens like bacteria, fungi, and protozoans.
These type of diseases spreads rapidly from one person to another by various means like contact, water, air, contaminated food etc.
Three diseases that can be caused by infected food or water are cholera, typhoid, and dengue.

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