Question
What are carriers of disease causing microbes? Explain with the help of two examples.
Solution
Disease causing microbes are some insects and animals which carry the disease causing micro-organisms like housefly, mosquitoes. Such insects and animals are called carriers of disease causing microbes.
Examples:-
(i) Housefly : The housefly is a carrier of micro-organisms. They sit on the garbage and animal excreta. The pathogens stick to their bodies, when these flies sit on uncovered food, they may transfer the pathogens.
(ii) Female Anopheles Mosquito : It is the carrier of the parasite of malaria.
(iii) Female Aedes mosquito acts as carrier of dengue virus.
