EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -NOTE-Filariasis is not only spread by female anopheles mosquitoes. It is transmitted by Culex quinquefasciatus, aedes and Mansonia also.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Other viral diseases transmitted by vectors include chikungunya fever, Zika virus fever, yellow fever, West Nile fever, Japanese encephalitis (all transmitted by mosquitoes), tick-borne encephalitis (transmitted by ticks).

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: Option B Solution: Other than spreading malaria, anopheles mosquitoes are also vectors of filariasis.

Detailed explanation-5: -How is malaria transmitted? Usually, people get malaria by being bitten by an infective female Anopheles mosquito. Only Anopheles mosquitoes can transmit malaria and they must have been infected through a previous blood meal taken from an infected person.