Feco-oral route | fecal oral route or oral fecal route

Feco-oral route or fecal oral route or oral fecal route:

Describes a particular route of transmission of a disease. Pathogens in fecal particles pass from one person to the mouth of another person. 

Causes:

1) Lack of adequate sanitation 

2) Poor hygiene practices 

Common routes: 

1) Fingers 

2) Flies 

3) Fields

4) Fluids 

5) Food 

Diseases caused by transmission: 

1) Diarrhoea 

2) Typhoid 

3) Cholera

4) Polio 

5) Hepatitis