Rats carry which of the following disease causing parasite?

Malaria

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Dengue

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Plague

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Typhoid

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Solution

The correct option is C Plague
Plague is a zoonotic disease, circulating mainly in fleas on small rodents, and is a type of bacterial infection caused by Yersinia pestis, that belongs to the family Enterobacteriaceae. Y. pestis spreads through the lymphatics of the infected human until it reaches a lymph node, where it stimulates severe haemorrhagic inflammation that causes the lymph nodes to expand.

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