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Intermediate host of malarial parasite is

  • pig

  • man

  • mosquito

  • larva of mosquito

Answer

B.

man

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infections disease caused by Plasmodium. It is mainly transmitted by the bite of an infected female Anopheles mosquito, which introduces the organism from its saliva into man's circulatory system (which is an intermediate host in which asexual reproduction takes place or the larval stages of animal parasites develops).

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