A Few Fly Facts

Suppose then, one were to ask what is THE most dangerous arthropod in the Western Hemisphere. Would you say the Black Widow spider? The scorpion? African Killer Bees? Not at all. If a single species were to be chosen it would be the Common House Fly. While spiders, scorpions, and bees can cause deaths by bites and stings, the number of deaths are relatively few; but the housefly does its dirty work everywhere.

Although it does not bite, the list of diseases the common house fly carries and spreads include many of the worst killers of mankind; Typhoid, Cholera, Gangrene, Tuberculosis, Gonorrhea, Bubonic Plague, Leprosy, Diptheria, Scarlet Fever, Amoebic Dysentery, Poliomyelitis, and many others. Some flies prefer the eye and transfer the microbes of Pink Eye, Conjunctivitis, and Trachoma from diseases eyes to your healthy eyes. Others spread Yaws, a skin disease, when they feed on your cuts and sores.

Each fly may carry as many as six million bacteria on it's feet. If it has recently walked in excrement, it may transmit Pathogens causing the previously mentioned diseases along with infectious Hepatitis, as well as the eggs of parasitic worms to humans, unfortunately mainly to children. The micro-organisms that flies carry generally get into our systems through our mouths. This occurs mostly when the flies having picked up these micro-organisms from some diseased source, deposit them when they land on our food which they also feed on, and which we then take into our bodies. Most of these infecting organisms thrive in a warm moist environment with lots of good food to eat which is just what they find in our digestive systems. They multiply and invade other tissues destroying them or messing up their functions in some way and "presto" we are sick.

There are perhaps 200 species of these domesticated flies. The most dangerous of these is the common house fly that persistently annoys, plagues, and diseases mankind.

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