________ is a disease caused by a Plasmodium and transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes.

Swine-flu

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Dengue

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Malaria

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Chikungunya

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Solution

The correct option is C
Malaria

Malaria is a disease caused by a Plasmodium. Plasmodium completes its life cycle in two hosts- human and female Anopheles mosquito. When a female Anopheles mosquito bites a person suffering from malaria, the parasite enters the mosquito. When this infected mosquito bites a healthy person, the parasite gets transmitted to that person via the saliva of the mosquito.

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Q7. Consider the following statements about Malaria:

1. Malaria is a life-threatening disease which is caused by mosquito bites.

2. Malaria is caused by plasmodium parasite and is transmitted in humans through the bite of Anopheles mosquito.

3. After an infected mosquito bites a human, the parasites begin to multiply in the person’s liver.

Which of the above statements are correct?

Question 12
Which disease is not transmitted by mosquitoes?

(a) Dengue
(b) Malaria
(c) Brain fever or encephalitis
(d) Pneumonia

Question 12
Which disease is not transmitted by mosquitoes?

(a) Dengue
(b) Malaria
(c) Brain fever or encephalitis
(d) Pneumonia

Question 3
Which one of the following disease is not transmitted by a mosquito?

(a) Brain fever
(b) Malaria
(c) Typhoid
(d) Dengue

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