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What is the name of dengue mosquito?
Anopheles genus-and only females of those species-can transmit malaria.
What is the vector for the plasmodium?
The vector for Plasmodium, the parasite that causes malaria, is the female Anopheles mosquito. These mosquitoes can transmit the parasite to humans through their bites during blood meals.
What kind of mosquito causes malaria?
The primary vector of West Nile virus in the United States is the Northern House Mosquito (Culex pipiens). However other species including Cx. restuans, Cx. quinquefasciatus, Oc. j. japonicus, Cx. salinarius, and others also transmit the virus.
How does the mosquito transmit malaria?
Malaria is caused by a parasite in the plasmodium family. Without going into too much detail the mosquito takes what amounts to eggs from an infected person those mature partially in the mosquito. Those are then passed to everyone that infected mosquito bites.
Which insect transmits malaria?
A mosquito, every 30 seconds kids in parts of Africa get malaria. if they had bed nets ( nets that go over beds), they would be safer. The female Anopheles mosquito is the vector for the malarial parasite.
Why is it good to kill mosquitoes to control malaria?
Malaria is in fact a plasmodium parasite. These are microscopic organisms called protist. Malaria is an extremely infectious, or communicable, disease. It destroys the red blood cells in your body as they are the reproduction factories of the parasite.Malaria is a very dangerous disease, killing between one and three million people a year, mostly children. Most Malaria cases, however, occur in sub-Saharan Africa.The malaria parasite is spread by the Anopheles Mosquito, which is the only mospuito that can transmit the disease. The Anopheles Mosquito is one of the targets of spraying, along with other mosqitos, mainly ones carrying the West Nile virus.
What is the term for an inanimate object that can harbor material containing infectious agents?
The term you are looking for is "fomite." Fomites are objects or materials that can carry and transmit infectious agents, such as viruses or bacteria, from one person to another.
Anopheles mosquitoes feed on infected humans and transmit malaria to others True or false?
true
What insects carry the malaria parasite?
Female Anopheles mosquitoes are the primary insects that carry and transmit the malaria parasite. When an infected mosquito bites a human, it can pass the parasite through its saliva into the person's bloodstream, leading to malaria infection.
Can you catch HIV from a mosiquito?
Mosquito's do not transmit HIV.
How are housefly and mosquito similar?
they transmit deseases to humans
What percentage of mosquitoes carry malaria?
There are approximately 460 mosquito species. Of these over 100 can transmit human malaria. Of these 30-40 commonly transmit parasites which cause malaria in humans in areas where it is most prevalent. The single most common carrier is "Anopheles gambiae" which carries the most dangerous malaria parasite species - "Plasmodium falciparum".
