Question

Malaria is spread by
1. house fly
2. female anopheles
3. male anopheles
4. aedes mosquito

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : female anopheles

The correct answer is the Female Anopheles mosquito.

Explanation:

• Malaria is caused due to Protozoa Plasmodium vivax.
  • It is transmitted through the female anopheles mosquito.
  • The protozoan plasmodium mainly attacks red blood cells, liver, and spleen of the human body.
  • There is no effective vaccine available for the treatment of Malaria.
  • The only approved vaccine is RTS, S, known by the trade name of Mosquirix but it has very low efficacy.
  • Medicines used to treat Malaria are hydroxychloroquine and quinine.
  • Resistance to antimalarial medicines is a recurring problem.
  • Resistance of P. falciparum malaria parasites to previous generations of medicines, such as chloroquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP), became widespread in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • Anopheles is a genus of mosquito first described and named by J. W. Meigen in 1818.
  • Female Anopheles mosquito is the carrier of malaria which when sucked blood from the patient and bite to another person which getting infected.

• Dengue:
  • Dengue fever or dengue hemorrhagic fever is caused by mosquito-borne dengue viruses. Dengue virus (Genus Flavivirus)
  • It is spread mainly by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and is prominently found in tropical and sub-tropical climates globally.