Match the incorrect pair.

Aedes - yellow fever

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Pediculus - typhus

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Xenopsylla - plague

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Culex - malaria

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Solution

The correct option is D
Culex - malaria

Culex mosquito spreads filariasis or elephantiasis. Anopheles mosquito spreads malaria.

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Column A	Column B
A- Culex pipiens	1- Yellow fever/Breakbone fever
B- Aedes aegypti	2- Elephantasis or filariasis
C- Glossina palpalis	3- Kala-azar/Leishmaniasis
D- Phlebotomus	4- Sleeping sickness/Trypnosomiasis

Match the following diseases with their vectors.

\begin{matrix} Disease & Vector a) Malaria & i) Flea b) Dengue & ii) Tse-tse fly c) Sleeping sickness & iii) Aedes mosquito d) Plague & iv) Anopheles mosquito \end{matrix}

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