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Insect vector, namely, ____________is responsible for the transmission of sleeping sickness disease.

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Sleeping sickness is caused by protozoa Trypanosoma which is transmitted to humans by tsetse fly.
It is named sleeping sickness because its symptom includes disturbed sleeping cycle.

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