Multiple choice

Which of the following is a set of vector borne diseases?

  1. African sleeping sickness, Lyme disease, Cretinism, Malaria

  2. African sleeping sickness, Chancroid, Kala azar, Cretinism

  3. African sleeping sickness, Lyme disease, Kala azar, Malaria

  4. African sleeping sickness, Kala azar, Malaria, Chancroid

  5. Cretinism, Chancroid, Malaria, Kala azar
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Explanation

African sleeping sickness is transmitted by tse-tse fly (Glossina palpalis). Lyme disease is caused by an arachnid, the deer tick (Ixodes scapularis), which carries a bacterium called Borrelia bugdorferi. Kala-azar is a vector borne disease. Sandfly of genus Phlebotomus are vectors of kala-azar. Malaria, a life-threatening blood disease caused by a parasitic protozoans of the genus Plasmodium, is transmitted to humans by the female Anopheles mosquito.

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