When a mosquito or a fly carries an organism that infects another living organism, this mode of transmission is infection via:
1. a common vehicle.
2. direct excretion.
3. ingestion.
4. a vector.
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Vector-borne diseases are carried from one host to another. Part of the life cycle of the pathogen occurs in the body of the fly, mosquito, or tick.
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