Question

Q. Of the following diseases, which one is caused by insect bite?

1) Dengue
2) Scurvy
3) Pneumonia
4) Asthma

Answer 1

Q. Of the following diseases, which one is caused by insect bite?

Ans. 1) Dengue.

It is caused by the bite of female Aedes Mosquito.

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Answer 2

Dengue is caused by an insect bite.( option 1)

• Dengue is also called breakbone fever, it is caused by the bite of the Ades aegypti mosquito.
• Ades mosquito is a vector of dengue virus that causes dengue fever.
• It spreads the disease by biting humans as it feeds by sucking blood and transmitting it to another organism as it feeds on it.
• Humans serve as the primary host or reservoir of dengue.
• Vector are those organisms that help in the transmission of disease from one living organism to another.
• Primary hosts are those organisms where the infectious pathogen completes the major reproductive cycle of its life cycle.
• Pneumonia - lung disease- caused by Streptococcus pneumonia, spreads through the air, also called droplet infection.
• Asthma and scurvy are non - infectious diseases.
• Scurvy is caused by a lack of vitamin - C.