The Department of Biology, in collaboration with the Continuing Education Unit at the College of Science has organized a lecture entitled “Water-borne Diseases” in the presence of a number of students, researchers and medical professionals. The aim of the lecture was to identify the most important pollutants that pollute water directly or indirectly on living organisms, as this pollution affects the life of the individual by describing access to healthy and clean water as a community requirement for the family and the individual and therefore may be a major cause of ending life on earth, which may be a cause of ending life on earth and these pollutants may be physical, chemical or micro-organisms affecting health and leading to disease.
The lecture was presented by Dr. Hanan Mohammed Hassan, included identifying water-related diseases caused by pathogenic microorganisms that are usually transmitted by water through drinking, swimming, bathing, preparing food or eating food contaminated with this water and what these organisms cause to many diseases, especially diarrhea in children in developing countries and the cases of bloody diarrhea, cholera, typhoid, intestinal poisoning, viral hepatitis, acute intestinal infections, wound infections, eye infection & injuries caused by parasitic worms transmitted by water during their life cycle.
