Sleeping sickness disease is caused by

housefly

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mosquito

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sandfly

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tsetse fly.

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The correct option is D tsetse fly.
Sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis) is a disease of tropical Africa caused by the presence in the blood of the parasitic protozoans Trypanosoma gambiense or T. rhodesiense. The parasites are transmitted through the bite of tsetse flies.

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Sleeping sickness is caused by ____________, a protozoan.

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