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Diseases like dysentery, cholera, typhoid etc., are more common in overcrowded human settlements. Why?

Diseases like dysentery, cholera, typhoid etc.are mainly contaminated water based diseases and are more common in overcrowded human settlements because in case of open excretion, the water gets mixed with the infected excreta and the contaminated water spreads the disease further.


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