Kala-azar, the disease with its heaviest Indian burden in Bihar, is transmitted by which vector?
- A.Anopheles mosquito
- B.Sandfly
- C.Tsetse fly
- D.Rat flea
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, the sandfly. Kala-azar, or visceral leishmaniasis, is caused by a parasite carried by the sandfly, which breeds in the damp cracks of mud walls and cattle sheds in the plains of north Bihar, so the control programme sprays the inside walls of houses, offers free diagnosis and treatment at the block level and pays the patient an amount towards lost wages.
Option A, the anopheles mosquito, carries malaria, and the two diseases are often placed together in the same question. Option C, the tsetse fly, carries sleeping sickness in Africa and does not occur in India, so it is a pure distractor. Option D, the rat flea, carries plague, the disease of the Surat outbreak of 1994. Learning the vectors as pairs is the fastest route to the mark: sandfly and kala-azar, anopheles and malaria, aedes and dengue, culex and filaria, rat flea and plague.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich is the oldest university in Bihar?
- A.Magadh University
- B.Patna University
- C.Lalit Narayan Mithila University
- D.Nalanda Open University
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It was set up on 1 October 1917 as an examining and affiliating university for the province of Bihar and Odisha, and it is the oldest university in the state as well as one of the oldest in the country.
Read the full explanation →According to the Census of 2011, which district of Bihar had the highest literacy rate?
- A.Patna
- B.Rohtas
- C.Munger
- D.Purnia
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In the Census of 2011 Rohtas, with its headquarters at Sasaram in the Shahabad region, recorded the highest literacy rate among the districts of Bihar, ahead of Patna and Munger, which came next.
Read the full explanation →What was the literacy rate of Bihar in the Census of 2011?
- A.47.0 per cent
- B.54.3 per cent
- C.61.8 per cent
- D.74.0 per cent
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The Census of 2011 recorded Bihar’s literacy rate as 61.8 per cent, the lowest among the states of India, with 71.2 per cent for men and 51.5 per cent for women.
Read the full explanation →The Indian Institute of Management in Bihar is located at which place?
- A.Patna
- B.Bodh Gaya
- C.Muzaffarpur
- D.Rajgir
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The Indian Institute of Management of the state works at Bodh Gaya in Gaya district, the town of the Mahabodhi temple, and it was among the institutes opened in the second round of expansion of the IIM system.
Read the full explanation →Patna Medical College, the oldest medical college of Bihar, was opened in 1925 under which name?
- A.Temple Medical School
- B.Prince of Wales Medical College
- C.Bihar Medical College
- D.Rajendra Medical College
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The institution opened in 1925 under that name and was renamed Patna Medical College after independence; its hospital is still among the largest in eastern India and the oldest teaching hospital of the state.
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