A person is suffering from a disease X. Microbes causing the disease enter the body through a mosquito bite. They reach the liver and then enter and infect the RBCs. Identify the disease X.

Japanese encephalitis

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Jaundice

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Malaria

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Dengue

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Solution

The correct option is C Malaria
Disease X is malaria. It is caused by Plasmodium, a protozoa. Disease is transmitted by the bite of an infected female Anopheles mosquito. Parasite reaches the liver through blood. Then they enter the RBCs and produce various symptoms of the disease like high fever and shaking chills.

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