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An insect regarded as greatest mechanical carrier of disease is

A

Pediculus

B

Cimex

C

Musca

D

Xenopsylla

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C
Musca (house fly) is the carrier of many disease as anthrax, trachoma, diarrhoea , tuberculosis, leprosy, gaugrene , plague , gonorrhoea, typhoid, cholera and dysentery.
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