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The bite of an infected_____ causes sleeping sickness.

A
Anopheles mosquito
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Tsetse fly
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Fly
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Culex
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Solution

The correct option is B Tsetse fly
Correct option: c. Tsetse fly
  • An infectious disease, caused by a protozoan called Trypanosoma, and is spread through the bite of a Tsetse fly is sleeping sickness.
  • Bite of infected female Anopheles mosquito spreads malaria, fly commonly spreads typhoid, infected female Culex mosquito spreads filaria.

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