Answer: False
Step-by-step explanation:
A pathogen is a anything which can cause disease in a living being. A pathogen is an infectious agent or a germ. Infectious microorganism like bacteria, virus, viroids, protozoa and fungus are pathogenic in nature. Plants, animals and certain worms are also pathogen in nature.
Among the options given ticks and parasitic worms cannot be consider as pathogens as these can live as parasite in the body of the host organism by sucking blood and deriving nutrients but they do not cause any disease to them.