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Doctors Medicines MCQs Q&A

  1. Yellow fever
  2. Dengue fever
  3. Encephalitis
  4. Filariasis
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Option 4 : Filariasis

  • Filariasis is a parasitic disease caused by an infection with roundworms of the Filarioidea type.
  • This disease belongs to the group of diseases called helminthiasis. 
  • Spread by blood-feeding black flies and mosquitoes namely Anopheles, Culex quinquefasciatus, Aedes, and Mansonia.
  • NOTE - Filariasis is not only spread by female anopheles mosquitoes. It is transmitted by Culex quinquefasciatus, aedes and Mansonia also.
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