Chhattisgarh PMT Chhattisgarh PMT Solved Paper-2006

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    The carrier of virus causing human yellow fever is

    A)  mosquito                           

    B)  bug

    C)  louse                                   

    D)  beetle

    Correct Answer: A

    Solution :

    Yellow fever caused by an arbovirus is a haemorrhagic disease transmitted by the infected Aedes aegypti. Symptoms of yellow fever are headache, fever, vomating rapture of veins in kidneys, spleen, liver etc. In severe cases, the skin of sufferer becomes yellow from jaundice-hence, the name yellow fever. Max Theller in 1951 got Nobel Prize for the development of vaccine for yellow fever.


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