Environmental Pollution and its Diseases

Environmental factors directly contribute to environmental diseases. This includes genetic predisposition, exposure to harmful substances, physical elements in the environment, such as UV radiation from the sun, and disorders brought on by substance misuse. Meanwhile, exposure to chemicals in the air, water, and soil is blamed for ailments linked to pollution. As a result, all environmental diseases are also pollution-related diseases, but not all pollution-related diseases are environmental diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) state that pathogenic bacteria can directly spread through contaminated water and are the cause of waterborne infections. The majority of waterborne illnesses are diarrheal. Not every illness in the list below causes diarrhea. Around the world, 88 percent of diarrhea cases are attributed to contaminated drinking water, poor sanitation, or poor hygiene. Each year, 1.5 million people die as a result of these situations, most of them being young children. Dehydration usually results in death. Because of contaminated water, subpar sanitation, and inadequate hygiene, developing nations experience the majority of occurrences of diarrheal disease and fatalities. Other waterborne illnesses can induce malnutrition, skin infections, and organ damage; they do not typically produce diarrhea.