Hepatitis A - Tanzania: Water Is Essential to Life, but There Are Diseases

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Hepatitis A is also a viral disease which can be acquired through faecal oral contamination. Water related diseases are; malaria which we get after the rainy seasons for the Anopheles mosquitoes breeding in clean stagnant waters, bilharzias (kichocho) very common in and around the whole coastal zone from Tanga, Dare s Salaam, Lindi, Mtwara, Pemba and Zanzibar (Unguja ) and places in and around the Victoria lake regions just to mention a few places.