Question: The vector of Filariasis disease is _______
Options:
Culex mosquito
Tsetse fly
Ades aegypti
Filarial worm
🦋 Key Points
→ Filariasis is an infectious tropical disease caused by any one of several thread-like parasitic roundworms.
→ The two species of worms most often associated with this disease are Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia malayi.
→ Lymphatic filariasis is transmitted by different types of mosquitoes, for example, by the Culex mosquito, widespread across urban and semi-urban areas, Anopheles, mainly found in rural areas, and Aedes, mainly in endemic islands in the Pacific.
→ Filariasis is an infectious tropical disease caused by any one of several thread-like parasitic roundworms.
→ The two species of worms most often associated with this disease are Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia malayi.
→ Lymphatic filariasis is transmitted by different types of mosquitoes, for example, by the Culex mosquito, widespread across urban and semi-urban areas, Anopheles, mainly found in rural areas, and Aedes, mainly in endemic islands in the Pacific.
📝 Additional Information
→ Insects and Their Disease Vectors:
Tsetse Fly: Vector of African Trypanosomiasis
Aedes Aegypti: Vectors of Dengue virus, Yellow fever virus, Chikungunya virus, Zika virus
House Fly: Vectors of Shigellosis, Typhoid fever, E. coli infections, Cholera