Give one example of a carrier and a disease spread by it.

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Carriers are organisms that carry disease-causing microorganisms on or in their body.
In malaria, the female Anopheles mosquito is a carrier of the Plasmodium parasite.
When a mosquito bites a healthy person, the parasite is released into his bloodstream.

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