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What is the percentage of fruit flies that carry contagious human disease?
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There is no specific percentage of fruit flies that carry contagious diseases. An accurate estimate would probably be between 10 and 20 percent.
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What bacteria do house flies carry?
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What germs does a fly carry?
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How might flies carry a disease such as dysentery from one person to another?
in their legs
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What has the author Edward Hindle written?
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What disease does piggy have in lord of the flies?
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Do Tse tse flies carry viruses?
yes the most common that they carry is in a parisite that they carry. it is sleeping sickness.
Lord of the Flies what rituals from home do the boys carry with them on the island?
they carry nothing at all!
