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The vector for sleeping sickness is
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- House fly
- Tse-Tse fly
- Sand fly
- Fruit fly
Correct Option: B
Vector for sleeping sickness is Tse-Tse fly (Glossina palpalis). The parasite Trypanosoma is transmitted through the bite of this fly. Tse-tse have been extensively studied because they are biological vectors of the African trypanosomiasis, deadly disease which includes sleeping sickness in people and nagana in cattle. Tse-tse have existed in the modern morphological form for at least 34 million years since fossil tse-tse have been recovered from the Florissant Fossil Beds in Colorado.