Alarge number of people experience a high fever with a rash during the summer months in a small country. epidemiologists suspect an emerging disease. both aedes and anopheles mosquitoes are endemic to the country. researchers are able to detect +ssrna in the blood of fever victims and in some mosquitoes. what type of pathogen might be responsible for the epidemic? a. plague bacteriab. a herpesvirusc. filovirusd. plasmodiume. a flavivirus

The correct answer is option E. a flavivirus.

Explanation:

A flavivirus is a virus that is found in primarily by mosquitoes and tick or other arthropods. These are the virus that contains single-stranded enveloped RNA. These mosquitoes or ticks can infect humans with these flaviviruses. These viruses cause diseases that are characterized by high fever, rashes.

The epidemic can cause life-threatening diseases such as dengue, yellow fever, tick-borne encephalitis.

Thus, the correct answer is option E. a flavivirus.

c.) polymerase chain reaction

- "unlike the original dna fingerprinting method, dna profiling does not use restriction enzymes to cut the dna. instead it uses the polymerase chain reaction (pcr)? to produce many copies of specific str sequences. pcr is an automated procedure that generates lots of copies of a specific sequence of dna."