# River floods may cause diseases. Describe a disease which may be spread by a river flooding

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- Cholera spreads when sanitation is poor
- Organisms from sewage find their way into drinking water
- It is caught by eating or drinking something that has been contaminated by the waste of a person who has Cholera
- Causes diarrhoea, violent vomiting, and cramp
- The victim loses liquid causing dehydration
- The disease can kill but only if not treated straight away.
- The only thing to stop the spread of Cholera is Education