Correct option is A
The correct answer is Female anopheles mosquito.
About Malaria:
- Malaria spreads only by the disease-carrying mosquitoes.
- The vector of malaria is the female anopheles mosquito.
- Malaria spreads only when a female mosquito that has bitten a malaria patient bites another person.
- A blood test is done to check if a person has malaria or not.
- People with malaria get a fever with chills, sweating, headache, nausea and rigours.
- Malaria is caused by protozoan Plasmodium.
- In early times, the dried and powdered bark of the Cinchona tree was used to make medicine for malaria.
- Earlier people used to boil the bark powder and strain the water which was given to patients.
- Now tablets are made from this in the form of quinine, chloroquine is given to patients.