Name the vectors of following diseases :
(i) Kala-azar (ii) Sleeping sickness
(iii) Typhus (iv) Bubonic plague
(v) Malaria (vi) Dengue.

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Disease:
It is a feeling of discomfort or uneasiness in the body of an individual due to external or internal agents that alter the normal functioning of the body.
Diseases can be transferred from one person to another through various modes depending on their transmission severity.
Vectors of the disease are the agents that carry the disease-causing microbes to infect a healthy individual causing them disease.
Following are the vectors of the given diseases:
(i) Kala-azar - Female phlebotomine sandfly
(ii) Sleeping sickness - Tse Tse fly
(iii) Typhus - Body louse (Pediculus corporis)
(iv) Bubonic plague - Oriental rat flea Xenopsylla cheopis
(v) Malaria - Female anopheles mosquito
(vi) Dengue - Aedes aegypti mosquito

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