11 Jan house-fly-cdc-image

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This photograph depicts a dorsal view of a house fly, Musca domestica, and was created during a 1972 study of disease carriers, and pests of migrant labor camps. Annoying houseflies may spread typhoid, cholera, dysentery and diarrhea. They can carry these disease causing organisms from garbage, sewage and fecal matter to food, or to a person's hands or lips.

This photograph depicts a dorsal view of a house fly, Musca domestica, and was created during a 1972 study of disease carriers, and pests of migrant labor camps. Annoying houseflies may spread typhoid, cholera, dysentery and diarrhea. They can carry these disease causing organisms from garbage, sewage and fecal matter to food, or to a person’s hands or lips.