Examples of water-borne and sex linked diseases are?

A.

taeniasis and malaria

B.

cholera and gonorrhoea

C.

typhoid and syphilis

D.

dracunculiasis and haemophilia

Correct answer is D

Dracunculiasis, also called Guinea-worm disease, is a parasitic infection by the Guinea worm, Dracunculus medinensis. A person becomes infected from drinking water that contains water fleas infected with guinea worm larvae.

Some of the more familiar sex-linked traits are hemophilia, red-green color blindness, congenital night blindness, some high blood pressure genes, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and Fragile X syndrome.