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BIOLOGY FROM 2

Chapter 4:Mosquitoes (anopheles and culex)

Mosquitoes as disease vectors

A disease vector is the disease does not affect an organism that is capable of transmitting disease from an organism to another but.

Only the female mosquitoes are disease vectors of various diseases, which include:

  • Malaria: carried by the female anopheles mosquito
  • Yellow fever: carried by the female aedes mosquito
  • Dengue fever: carried by the female culex mosquito
  • Filariasis: carried by the female culex mosquito
par Claude Foumtum