Statistics for Medical Entomology

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Vector of the bacteria that causes lime disease, relapsing fever, rickettsial disease and tularemia.	Tick	89%
Can spread tungiasis and the plague.	Flea	67%
Vector of the parasitic protozoa genus Trypanosoma which causes Human African trypanosomiasis: African sleeping sickness.	Tsetse Fly	67%
Vector for viruses such as Zika, yellow fever, dengue, chikungunya, and Japanese encephalitus.	Aedes Moquitoes	33%
Type of arthropod that is a vector of Typhus and Louse-borne relapsing fever	Lice	33%
Vector for Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis)	Triatome bugs	33%
Notorious vector for the parasite plasmodium that causes Malaria	Anopheles Moquitoes	22%
Genus of fly that causes onchocerciasis or river blindness.	Black Fly	11%
Known vector of West Nile virus, and Eastern equine encephalomyelitis.	Coquilletidia Moquitoes	11%
Can carry West Nile virus, Japanese encephalitis, St Louis encephalitis and filariasis.	Culex Moquitoes	11%
Potential vector of Rift Valley fever virus	Mansonia Moquitoes	11%
Occurs in Central and South America. Have conspicuous ornamented, shining scales.	Sabethes Moquitoes	11%
Genus of fly that causes Leishmaniasis and phlebotomus fever.	Sandfly	11%