Whenever we try to eat food house flies or Musca domestica lands on our food. But what’s the big deal?
The problem is flies are usually busy in eating the dead animals or spoiled foods, and when then land on your food they are not alone. The bacteria’s and germs from the dead bodies of animals and from garbage also land with these flies.
Cameron Webb, a medical lecturer from University of Sydney, says that an average healthy person is not affected if a fly lands on his food once, but if there is huge number of flies continuously landing on your food then the risk is high.
[junkie-alert style=”green”] On average the flies carry 100 diseases with them from diarrhea to tuberculosis. So keep your house and neighbourhood clean to minimize the chances of flies. [/junkie-alert]
But the ultimate responsibility lies on the government to make a better system for garbage and trash collection. Dr Webb said that “insecticides and improved hygiene standards assist in fly control (in the city)”