VPE 511: Environment and Environmental Hygiene (2+1)

Fly Born Disease

FLY BORNE DISEASE

• The house fly not merely a nuisance in disturbing the rest of men and animals, in certain circumstances a carrier of disease and therefore a serious danger to human and animal health.
• The disease which this insect carrier or is capable of carrying are at restricted to dysentery, cholera, typhoid fever and some infection of man  by parasitic helminths, the fly is also an important factor in the spread of infertile or summer diarrhoea which results from the consumption of fly contaminated milk hydration.
• The flies also act as vectors of habronema species parasitic in horses. The organisms cornyebacterium pyogens responsible for summer moisture or dry cows and heifers is transmitted by flies.