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


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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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