Explanation

• Other than spreading malaria, anopheles mosquitoes are also vectors of Filariasis
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• Filariasis is a parasitic disease caused by an infection with roundworms of the Filarioidea type.
• This disease belongs to a group of diseases called helminthiasis.
• Spread by blood-feeding black flies and mosquitoes namely Anopheles, Culex quinquefasciatus, Aedes, and Mansonia.