Question

The sorters disease is caused by bacteria:
A. anthrax
B. bacillus
C. virus
D. aedes

Answer 1

The sorters disease is an infectious disease and the causative agent of this disease is bacterium Bacillus anthracis. This disease is also known as anthrax, malignant oedema, and woolsorters disease. Sorters disease commonly occurs in domestic animals such as cattle, sheep, goat, camels and antelopes. It can also occur in human beings if they are exposed to the Bacillus anthracis bacteria usually through handling animals.

Complete answer:
Sorters disease can be found around the world but the main regions of its occurrence are agricultural regions where it occurs in animals. Anthrax can be found in three forms of infection: cutaneous, inhalation, and gastrointestinal. Cutaneous infection occurs when someone intentionally releases the bacterium (bioterrorist release), inhalation occurs when breathing done in the spores (Bacillus) that have been spread through the air could cause inhalation infection of sorters disease. When people consume infected meat which has not been properly cooked then gastrointestinal infection occurs.

Hence, the correct answer is option (B).

Additional information:
Cutaneous infection is the most common form of sorters disease. First symptoms include itching on infected areas of skin then large boil or sore appears and then these sores become covered by a blackish scab. Infection can spread to the lymph nodes and bloodstream if it is not treated. In inhalation infection, first symptoms include fever, fatigue, malaise and cough or chest pain and after five days of infection, high fever, difficulty in breathing, pulse rate increases. It is often fatal.
When gastrointestinal infection occurs, first symptoms include fever, abdominal pain, watery bowel movements and bloody diarrhea and blood in vomiting.

Note: Sorter's disease can be diagnosed when the Bacillus anthracis bacteria is found in the blood, skin, or in respiratory secretions and also by measuring specific antibodies production in the blood of patients. Patients will be given some antibiotics such as ciprofloxacin or doxycycline for several weeks to prevent infection.