Question

Match the following items in column I with column II and choose the correct answer

Column I	Column II
A. Arsenic	1. Minamata disease
B. Nitrate	2. Itai-itai
C. Mecury	3. Blue-baby syndrome
D. Cadmium	4. Skeletal fluorosis
E. Fluoride	5. Black-foot disease

• A. A-2, B-3, C-5, D-1, E-4
• B. A-5, B-3, C-1, D-2, E-4
• C. A-3, B-4, C-5, D-1, E-2
• D. A-5, B-4, C-3, D-2, E-1
• E. A-2, B-5, C-4, D-3, E-1

Answer 1

The correct option is B A-5, B-3, C-1, D-2, E-4

Minamata disease is caused by mercury poisoning. It results in numbness, muscles weakness, loss of hearing, speech and reduces vision.

Itai- Itai is the disease caused by cadmium poisoning. The victim feels pain in spines and joints.

The blue baby syndrome also called as methemoglobinemia. It results in the mixing of deoxygenated and oxygenated blood due to non-closer of foramen ovale of heart. It results due high quantity of nitrate in water.

Black foot disease is caused by consumption of contaminated water having a high quantity of arsenic.

Skeletal fluorosis is a bone and joint disease caused by prolonged exposer to fluoride. Thus, the correct answer is option B.