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Sleeping sickness disease is caused by

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housefly
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mosquito
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sandfly
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tsetse fly.
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Solution

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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