Trypanosomiasis is transmitted by ________.

Vector

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Solution

The correct option is B Vector
Leishmania donovani causes trypanosomiasis also known as sleeping sickness. The disease is transmitted by tsetse fly that act as vectors to transmit the disease. The fly gets infected by sucking blood from the infected person and develops in its body. It then gets transmitted to a healthy person by bite.
Thus the correct answer is option A.

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