Vector-Borne Diseases Quiz: Do You Know the Carriers?

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Vector-Borne Diseases Quiz: Do You Know the Carriers?

Not all diseases are transmitted from human being to human being—some are transmitted by vectors such as mosquitoes, fleas, and tick. These tiny animals transmit diseases such as malaria, Lyme disease, plague, and dengue. Knowing how they transmit diseases and how one can avoid getting bitten is also very important in staying healthy. This quiz will enable you to understand the part played by vectors in disease transmission.

The tsetse fly is responsible for spreading which disease?

  • Sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis)

  • Rabies

  • Leptospirosis

  • Cholera

Which insect spreads malaria?

  • Housefly

  • Anopheles mosquito

  • Sandfly

  • Tsetse fly

Which parasite spread by mosquitoes causes elephantiasis (lymphatic filariasis)?

  • Leishmania donovani

  • Trypanosoma brucei

  • Plasmodium falciparum

  • Wuchereria bancrofti

Which disease can be prevented by sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets?

  • Typhoid

  • Malaria

  • Tuberculosis

  • Influenza

Chagas disease is spread by the “kissing bug.” What’s its scientific name?

  • Glossina

  • Ixodes

  • Triatoma infestans

  • Aedes aegypti

Which insect transmits kala-azar (visceral leishmaniasis)?

  • Bedbug

  • Sandfly

  • Mosquito

  • Tick

Yellow fever is carried by the same mosquito that spreads dengue. Which one is it?

  • Aedes aegypti

  • Sandfly

  • Culex 

  • Anopheles

Lyme disease is commonly spread by which vector?

  • Mosquitoes

  • Fleas

  • Lice

  • Ticks

Plague outbreaks in history were mainly caused by fleas carried by which animal?

  • Bats

  • Dogs

  • Rats

  • Cows

Dengue fever is mainly transmitted by which mosquito?

  • Blackfly

  • Culex mosquito

  • Aedes aegypti

  • Flea

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