World Environment Day is celebrated every year on June 5 with the aim of preventing the increasing pollution in the environment and making people aware of the increasing health problems due to it. Scientists say that there are many types of environmental factors that are seen to have a direct effect on our health. It is very important for all people to pay serious attention to this and take preventive measures. Let us know about such factors affecting health.
Air pollution most dangerous
Due to the indiscriminate felling of trees and increasing carbon emissions, the environment is becoming increasingly polluted. The main cause of air pollution is the mixing of solid-fine particles and some gases in the air. These particles and gases are increasing due to smoke coming out of cars and trucks, factories, dust, pollen, forest fires, etc.
Researchers found that breathing this type of polluted air significantly increases the risk of asthma and other respiratory diseases, heart disease, and even lung cancer.
Risk of water pollution
Water is one of the most important natural resources on which all living things depend. Water is getting polluted due to the release of toxic domestic, industrial, and agricultural wastes directly into water streams, population growth, and excessive use of pesticides, and fertilizers. Oceans are getting polluted due to plastic waste, which has a harmful effect on the life of marine organisms, which is also indirectly affecting human health.
Due to polluted water, diseases like cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, hepatitis-A, typhoid etc. occur.
Increasing chemicals in the environment are dangerous
There are many types of harmful chemicals in the smoke of the vehicle or the smoke coming out of factories, which are harming the environment. Exposure to harmful environmental chemicals such as mercury, lead, asbestos, and pesticides can lead to a risk of serious health problems including respiratory and heart disease, allergies and cancer.
Researchers have alerted about the increasing health problems among people due to plastics, especially microplastics.
diseases caused by microbes
Diseases such as flu, measles, typhoid, diarrhea and cholera are caused by many types of germs. The researchers found that the risk of exposure to these microbes through food may be higher. One such example is E. coli bacteria, which enters the body through contaminated food, which can cause severe abdominal cramps, bloody diarrhea, and vomiting.
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