Bagassosis is due to inhalation of: September 2012: (A) Cotton dust, (B) Silica dust, (C) Sugarcane/Bagasse dust, (D) Coal dust
Answer is C. Ans: C i.e. Sugarcane/ Bagasse dust Bagassosis It is an interstitial lung disease, is a type of hypersensitivity pneumonitis attributed to exposure to moldy molasses (bagasse). Bagassosis has been shown to be due to a thermophilic actinomycetes for which the name thermoactinomycetes sacchari was suggested.