A) Glossina palpalis - Sleeping sickness
B) Culex - Filariasis
C) Aedes aegypti - Yellow fever
D) Anopheles culifacies - Leishmaniasis
Correct Answer: D
Solution :
Leishmaniasis or kala-azar is caused by Leishmania donovani. It spreads by sand fly. It is also known as dum-dum fever. Glossina palpalis (Tse-tse fly) transmitts sleeping sickness and the causative organism is Trypanosoma gambiense. Filariasis (elephantiasis) is caused by Wuchereria bancrofti the filarial worm but transmitted by Culex or Aedes. Yellow fever caused by an arbovirus is a haemorrhagic disease transmitted by the infected Aedes aegypti.
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