Multiple choice

Sleeping sickness is caused by:

  1. sand fly

  2. mosquito

  3. tse-tse fly

  4. yellow wasp
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C Correct answer
Explanation

African sleeping sickness is caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Trypanosoma and is transmitted to humans by the bite of the tsetse fly. Sand flies transmit leishmaniasis, and mosquitoes transmit diseases like malaria and dengue. The yellow wasp is not a known vector for this disease.

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