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We can cover our food to prevent the housefly from landing on the food and contaminating the food.
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Why do health agencies like the CDC and WHO track and monitor the spread of diseases?
They want to know how the diseases spread, and how to prevent them from spreading
Why is a housefly a pest?
Because it can spread diseases.
Does a housefly have a disease on one wing and a cure for it on the next?
Many house flies carry diseases that are caused by bacteria or viruses. However, no housefly has the cure for these diseases.
What is called spread of diseases cased by housefly insect?
meningitis
Should an infected person's identity be revealed to alert others?
Most definitely! This helps prevent any further diseases and infections from spreading.
Does cholera spread by insects?
Yes. One insect spreads cholera. Name of that insect is housefly. Housefly sits on the stool of cholera patient and then on your food. It directly transfer the millions of bacteria to you. This way housefly transfer many other fecal oral diseases to you. You need to see the leg of housefly under light microscope.
Why to have clean toilets?
To avoid having bacteria spreading around and to avoid spreading diseases
What are the diseases that are not spreading?
tuber closuis
Can flies cause cholera?
Housefly does not cause cholera. But they spread the same. Housefly sits on the stool of cholera patient and then on your food. It directly transfer the millions of bacteria to you form the stool of cholera patient. This way housefly transfer many other fecal oral diseases to you. You need to see the leg of housefly under light microscope.
What is the use of the hairy growth on the housefly's legs and abdomen?
The hairs on a housefly's legs and abdomen serve the same purpose as they do in humans. These hairs collect dirt and prevent them from getting inside the fly's body.
How does feeding habits of housefly contribute to its ability to spreading disease?
In many countries people go in open spaces for defecation. This is a common practice in villages of India. Housefly sits on the fecal matter. Thousands of microorganisms get entangled on the legs of the housefly. Housefly has got fine hairlike projections on it's legs. This facilitate the trapping of microorganisms on the legs of housefly. This housefly may go and sit on the food that you are eating. The disease causing microorganisms are thus transmitted this way. Ova of the worms and cysts of the pathogenic species of Amoeba are also transmitted in the same way. Thus housefly is important agent to transmit the infections that are transmitted by fecal-oral route.
Is air the most common way of spreading diseases?
sneezing
