Question

Cholera is a disease caused by a bacterium called Vibrio cholera which produces a toxin in the infected person’s gut.

What is the effect of this toxin?

A It causes loss of water from the gut into the blood.

B It causes loss of water from the gall bladder into the blood.

C It causes water to enter the gut from the blood.

D It causes water to enter the gall bladder from the blood.

Answer 1

causes the body to secrete enormous amounts of water, leading to diarrhea and a rapid loss of fluids and salts (electrolytes).