Question
Biology Question on Common Diseases in Human Beings
The disease caused by a helminth parasite of man that has a gastropoda member as an intermediate host:
A
Ascariasis
B
Biiharzsasis
C
Taeniasis
D
Enterobiasis
Answer
Biiharzsasis
Explanation
Solution
Schistosoma haemcilobium is a blood fluke which lives principally in the veins of the urinary bladder plexus. In human, it causes the bilharziasis. Several species of gastropoda. like bulinus and physopsis serve as an intermediate host in the life cycle of Schistosoma haematobium.