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Identify the image.
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A Culex mosquito-borne brain infection with pigs and birds as reservoirs.
Updated On: Jun 23, 2026
- Malaria
- Plague
- Japanese encephalitis
- Paragonimus
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The Correct Option is C
Solution and Explanation
Step 1: The picture corresponds to Japanese encephalitis, a viral brain infection produced by the $Japanese\ encephalitis\ virus$.
Step 2: Transmission is by Culex mosquitoes, while pigs and wading birds are the amplifying reservoir, sustaining the virus between outbreaks.
Step 3: Because the virus invades the central nervous system, patients develop fever, headache, vomiting, altered consciousness and seizures.
Step 4: Malaria comes from Plasmodium carried by Anopheles, plague from Yersinia pestis through rat fleas, and Paragonimus is a parasitic lung fluke, so all are inconsistent with a Culex-borne encephalitis.
\[\boxed{\text{Japanese encephalitis}}\]
Step 2: Transmission is by Culex mosquitoes, while pigs and wading birds are the amplifying reservoir, sustaining the virus between outbreaks.
Step 3: Because the virus invades the central nervous system, patients develop fever, headache, vomiting, altered consciousness and seizures.
Step 4: Malaria comes from Plasmodium carried by Anopheles, plague from Yersinia pestis through rat fleas, and Paragonimus is a parasitic lung fluke, so all are inconsistent with a Culex-borne encephalitis.
\[\boxed{\text{Japanese encephalitis}}\]
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