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प्रश्न
Public hygiene is equally important as personal hygiene. Give reasons.
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उत्तर
Keeping oneself clean is personal hygiene. But public hygiene is equally important as dirty surrounding may lead to more of houseflies, mosquitoes and other insects which are major vectors of many communicable diseases. Clean surrounding also provides good mental health as it soothes our mind.
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Vector
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| (b) Plasmodium | (ii) Dengue |
| (c) Entamoeba histolytica | (iii) Vector |
| (d) Aedes mosquito | (iv) Malaria |
| (e) Insecticide | (v) Dysentery |
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