Diseases Spread by Mosquitoes

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Which of the following disease is not transmitted by a mosquito?

1. Malaria

2. Chikungunya

3. Typhoid

4. Dengue

Q. Which of the following disease is spread by mosquitoes?

1. Dengue
2. Anemia
3. Polio
4. Chickenpox

Q.

Name one disease which spreads through insect bites.

Q.

Organisms that carry disease causing organisms and infect other organisms without being infected themselves are called .

1. Vectors
2. Insects
3. Pathogens

Q.

Vectors can be defined as:

1. animals carrying the infecting agents from sick person to another healthy person

2. microorganisms which cause many diseases

3. infected person

4. diseased plants

Q.

Mosquito is a protozoa means they are microorganism , so it should not visible with our naked eyes, but it is visible why?

Q.

The malarial parasite 'Plasmodium' is carried only by the female Anopheles mosquito and not by the male mosquito because

1. The female requires blood to produce eggs

2. Plasmodium cannot survive in the male

3. None of the above

4. Both a& b

Q.

Fever in malaria is due to_____.

Q.

Insects which carries germs of diseases are called___________.

Q.

Anopheles mosquito is the vector of the malarial parasite which is called ___ .

Q.

Dengue : Barbo virus :: Chikungunya :

1. Human Immunodeficiency Virus

2. Rabies virus

3. Hepatitis virus

4. Alphavirus

Q.

Aedes aegypti is the vector of

1. Chikungunya

2. Malaria

3. Dengue

4. Measles

Q. It is said that the female mosquito is responsible for the spread of malaria. Do you agree with this? If yes, why?

Q.

The virus which causes cowpox is it the same virus which causes small pox in humans

Q.

Why do the flowering in wild bamboo plants causes a big headache for both locals and Government agencies?

1. The curse of Ganesha

2. The fear of plague

3. Flowers bring in poisonous bees

4. Bamboo flowers are poisonous

Q.

Filariasis is caused by Wuchereria bancrofti.

1. True

2. False

Q.

Malaria is a ___ disease.

1. bacterial

2. fungal

3. viral

4. protozoan

Q. In case of dengue and chikungunya, the insects bite during ________ .

1. daytime

2. night time

3. all the time

4. dawn and dusk

Q.

Vectors can be defined as

1. microorganisms that cause many diseases

2. animals that carry the infecting agents from a sick person to a healthy person

3. infected person diseases

4. diseased plants

Q.

An infectious disease is one that is ___________.

1. caused by a pathogen or its products

2. transferred by mosquitoes

3. spread from person to person

4. caused by all bacteria

Q.

Vectors can be defined as

1. animals carrying the infecting agents from sick person to another healthy person

2. microorganisms which cause many diseases

3. infected person

4. diseased plants

Q.

Chikungunya is not a contagious disease.

1. False

2. True

Q. Select the ways through which Zika virus spreads.

1. Mosquitoes
2. Air
3. Sexual contact
4. Mother to child during pregnancy

Q. Symptoms of Ebola virus?

Q.

An animal that transmits a disease from infected person or its stools etc. to other potential host is called

1. primary host

2. secondary host

3. parasite

4. vector

Q. Disease causing microorganisms are known as _______.

1. disinfectants
2. antiseptics
3. pathogens
4. antibiotics

Q. What is the symptom that distingushes dengue from other mosquito borne diseases?

Q. Carriers of specific germs are called as _______ .

1. vectors
2. carriers
3. scalars
4. pathogens

Q.

Can excess use of mosquito repelents or using them when there are no mosquitos cause harm to humans?

Q. Malaria is caused by the protozoan ________.

1. Entamoeba

2. Leishmania

3. Giardia

4. Plasmodium