Which one of the following is an environment-related disorder with the correct main cause?

Options

A. black lung disease (penumoconiosis) found mainly in workers in stone quarries in the area
B. blue baby diseas (methaemoglobinaemia) due
C. Non-hodeking's lymphoma found mainy in workers inovled in manufacture of neem based pesticides
D. skin cancer mainly in people exposed ot benzene nand methane

Answer

b

Explanation

Blue bagy syndrome is a patgholigcal condition, called methemoglobinemia. In which blood's capacity for oxygen transpot is reduced, resulting in bluish skin discoloration in infants. Blue baby syndrome beings when large amounts of nitrates in water are ingested by an infant and converted to nitrite by the digestive system. the nitrite then reacts with oxyhaemoglobin (the oxygen-carrying blood protein) to form metheglobin, which cannot carry oxygen.
Pneumoconiosis is a man-made, occupationla lun diseases that are contracted by prolonged breathing of coal mine dust i.e. , ecaused by the inhalation of dust, characterized by fromation of nodular fibrotic changes in lungs- non-Hodgkin lymphoma (orNHL) is a cancer of lympoid tissue, a part of the lymphatic system. NHL is a heterogenous disease. Skin cancer is a maliganat tumor that grows in th skin cells. It is commonly caused by exponsure to the sun's UV rays.