DISEASES BROUGHT ABOUT BY

ANIMALS, INSECTS, AND HUMAN

WASTES
Lesson 4
Quarter 4
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INSECTS, AND HUMAN WASTES
In places with sanitary toilet, improper disposal of human waste is one
of the pressing problems. It causes diseases due to unsanitary habit of
disposing human waste. These diseases are intestinal parasitism, typhoid
fever, dysentery, and diarrhea.
You need to dispose human waste properly in order to:
1. prevent the spread of diseases
2. avoid unsightly condition
3. avoid foul odors
4. prevent contamination of water resources
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INSECTS, AND HUMAN WASTES
Aside from human wastes, there are
also animals in the environment that
may spread diseases. Dogs, cats, rats,
and other animals transmit rabies.
RABIES is an infectious diseases duo
virus which is transmitted through the
infected saliva of rabid animals. Their
bites carry a great risk of tetanus also.
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INSECTS, AND HUMAN WASTES
Insects and household pests can be controlled by destroying their
breeding places and dwellings. Cleaning and removing the breeding places
of insects, and household pests should always be done if you want to stay
safe from diseases caused by the pests. Insects and household pests spread
many serious diseases such as:

• diarrhea • influenza
• cholera • allergy
• H-fever • tuberculosis
• malaria • gastroenteritis
• parasitism
Insects and household pests
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INSECTS, AND HUMAN WASTES
Malaria is transmitted by female anopheles mosquitoes while H-fever is transmitted by an
Aedes Aegypti.
Female anopheles
mosquito

Aedes Aegypti.

people with malaria

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INSECTS, AND HUMAN WASTES
Dysentery is spread by flies and bubonic plague by rats.
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INSECTS, AND HUMAN WASTES
Other Measures to Control Insects and Other Household Pests
1. Physical means
a. Use of fly paper
b. Use of traps
c. Use of illumination or electricity
d. Use of screen
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INSECTS, AND HUMAN WASTES
Other Measures to Control Insects and Other Household Pests
2. Chemical means
a. Use of rodenticides
b. Use of insecticides
c. Use of larvicides
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INSECTS, AND HUMAN WASTES
Other Measures to Control Insects and Other Household Pests
3. Biological means
Lessen the factors that affect their growth and reproduction such as food, space for their harborage
and habitat, and natural predator.
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INSECTS, AND HUMAN WASTES
Other Measures to Control Insects and Other Household Pests
4. Environmental means
Clean all the possible breeding places.
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INSECTS, AND HUMAN WASTES
Other Measures to Control Insects and Other Household Pests
5. Educational means
Information campaign through health education.
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INSECTS, AND HUMAN WASTES
A healthy place to live in can be
achieved if all members of the
family will do their share
maintaining a clean environment.
Start promoting proper health habits
and practices at your home and
encourage your neighbors to do the
same and surely you will have a
clean and healthy community.
THANK YOU!