Multiple choice

Which of the following are examples of bacterial diseases transmitted through contaminated food and water?

  1. Ancylostomiasis
  2. Balantidiasis
  3. Cholera
  4. Leprosy
  5. Tuberculosis
  6. Typhoid

  1. 1, 2 and 3

  2. 2, 3 and 6

  3. 3 and 5

  4. 3, 4 and 6

  5. 4, 5 and 6
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Balantidiasis is transmitted primarily by eating food or drinking water that has been contaminated by human or animal faeces containing Balantidium coli cysts. Cholera is transmitted from person to person through ingesting water or food infected with Vibrio cholerae. Typhoid is transmitted through Salmonella typhi.

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