A coal mine in Frameries, Belgium. Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content, and, since the 1880s, has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from iron ore and for cement production.
Definition: A Disease-Causing Organism is a micro-organism that can make you sick if you eat it, inhale it, or come into contact with it (get it on your skin, or in your ears, etc).Standards for disease-causing organisms in Louisiana are based on a group of bacteria called fecal coliform bacteria.These bacteria are used for detecting the level of disease-causing organisms and untreated sewage in water. Fecal coliform bacteria come from intestines of warm-blooded animals.isease-causing organisms get into the water from untreated sewage. When people go to the bathroom they create waste called sewage. Every home, school, and business is required by law to have some way of treating its sewage or transporting it to a sewage treatment system.
An infectious disease is any disease caused by a pathogen (germ) such as a virus, bacteria, parasite, or fungus. Although we will mostly discuss infectious diseases in people on this page, other living organisms such as animals, plants, and microorganisms can all be made ill by an infectious disease.Pathogens. Bacteria-Bacteria are small microorganisms. 2  They can cause diseases such as tuberculosis, cholera, typhoid fever, and tetanus. 3  Parasites-Parasites are organisms that live off their hosts. 4  Some parasitic diseases include malaria, sleeping sickness, and scabies. 5  Fungi-Fungi are microorganisms such as yeasts and molds.