MISCELLENOUS
VACCINATION
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Question
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Which pair correctly matches a vector and the infectious disease it carries?
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human-influenza
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opossum-rabies
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mosquito-malaria
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flea-Lyme disease
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Dengue, malaria and Chagas disease. Leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis and yellow fever. Chikungunya, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis and West Nile virus. These are 10 vector-borne diseases carried by mosquitoes, ticks, flies and other vectors that put one of every two people in the Americas at risk.
Detailed explanation-2: -Vector-Borne Disease: Disease that results from an infection transmitted to humans and other animals by blood-feeding anthropods, such as mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas. Examples of vector-borne diseases include Dengue fever, West Nile Virus, Lyme disease, and malaria.
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