Which of the following statement is false?

Incubation period for malaria is about 3 weeks.

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Incubation period for amoebiasis is about 1 week

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Male Anopheles mosquito acts as a carrier for malaria

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Amoebiasis spreads through food and water contaminated by flies

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Solution

The correct option is C
Male Anopheles mosquito acts as a carrier for malaria

Female Anopheles mosquito acts as a carrier for malaria

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Q7. Consider the following statements about Malaria:

1. Malaria is a life-threatening disease which is caused by mosquito bites.

2. Malaria is caused by plasmodium parasite and is transmitted in humans through the bite of Anopheles mosquito.

3. After an infected mosquito bites a human, the parasites begin to multiply in the person’s liver.

Which of the above statements are correct?

The carrier of malaria-causing protozoan is :

(a) female Anopheles mosquito (b) cockroach (c) housefly (d) female Aedes mosquito

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