Do flies spread diseases?
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clever use of the question and additional details area making us believe you were going to ask one thing, but then you ask another. Flies spread dysentery and diarrhea, as for your fly? I don't know what diseases crawl over that thing.
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They carry tiny amounts of blood from person to person, so they could transmit diseases. Yes, any mosquito that bites could spread disease.\n\nIt is true that it takes about a hundred times more virus particles to transmit HIV as compared to hepatitis B, so in a sense it would take about a thousand infested mosquito bites to get HIV that way.  It would be much likely to catch other diseases such as encephalitis, dengue fever, or malaria than HIV from mosquitos.
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Bed bugs ( Cimex lectularius) can possibly transmit Hepatitis B.
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No, it's al oad of rubbish. Flies live for several days to several months as a larva (maggot) and live for several more days to several more months as an adult.
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Strains of bacteria from dead animals mosquitoes sucked up and tranfered to birds and birds to humans! Gross isn't it, but a fact of life.
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at this point, I am very concerned since only insects outnumber the birds in the world and they are airborn. The mutation could occur at any moment and infect humans. This is how the flu of 1917 or so occured and spread rapidly
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The housefly (also house-fly or house fly) (Musca domestica) is the most common fly occurring in homes and indeed one of the most widely distributed animals and the most familiar of all flies; it is a pest that can facilitate serious diseases.
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Cockroaches sometimes bite humans, but not often. Their bite by itself will not cause disease, but if the cockroach came into contact with disease-causing organisms before biting then a disease may be transmitted. The bite marks should appear as small, scabby areas. Sometimes sleeping infants are bitten around the mouth by cockroaches that are attracted to spilled milk or food in that area.
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Pubic lice (crabs) are normally spread by sexual contact and are considered a sexually transmitted disease, but can also be spread by sharing clothes or bedding. A common misbelief is that infestation can be spread by sitting on a toilet seat. This is not likely since lice cannot live long away from a warm human body. Also, lice do not have feet designed to walk or hold onto smooth surfaces such as toilet seats.\n\nI would still always wipe clean or cover with toilet paper the toilet seat when using public toilets.
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Trypanosoma infections are generally transmitted by insect bites.  Two common forms of trypanosomiasis in humans are Trypanosoma cruzi, which is transmitted by Reduviid bugs, and Trypanosoma brucei, which is transmitted by the tsetse fly.
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Everyone here is right, there's more than one kind of infection you can get.\n\nHantavirus, leptospirosis, rickettsia, yersinia pestis and so on, they're all bugs you may find in mice droppings. Frightening isn't it? Don't blame me blame Mickey!
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I think it may have something to do with blood types. My dad and I get bitten all the time, we have A type, yet the flies don't touch my mom, who has type O.
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no\n\nI won't paste the entire article here, but you can read it...\n\nhere:\n\nhttp://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/aids.htm\n\nWhy Mosquitoes Cannot Transmit AIDS\nby Wayne J. Crans, Associate Research Professor in Entomology\nRutgers Cooperative Extension Fact Sheet # FS736
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Media releases concerning the possibility of mosquitoes transmitting AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) were common when the disease was first recognized, and the subject is still addressed by tabloids that seek captivating headlines to increase their circulation. The topic was initiated by reports from a small community in southern Florida where preliminary evidence suggested that mosquitoes may have been responsible for the higher on average incidence of AIDS in the local population. The media was quick to publicize claims that mosquitoes were involved in AIDS transmission despite findings of scientific surveys of the National Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that clearly demonstrated that mosquito transmission of AIDS in that community appeared highly unlikely. Nevertheless, media releases perpetuated the concept that mosquitoes transmitted AIDS, and many people still feel that mosquitoes may be responsible for transmission of this infection from one individual to another. \n\n     There are three theoretical mechanisms which would allow blood-sucking insects such as mosquitoes to transmit HIV.\n\n1. In the first mechanism, a mosquito would initiate the cycle by feeding on an HIV positive carrier and ingest virus particles with the blood meal. For the virus to be passed on, it would have to survive inside the mosquito, preferably increase in numbers, and then migrate to the mosquito's salivary glands. The infected mosquito would then seek its second blood meal from an uninfected host and transfer the HIV from its salivary glands during the course of the bite. This is the mechanism used by most mosquito-borne parasites, including malaria, yellow fever, dengue, and the encephalitis viruses.\n\n2. In the second mechanism, a mosquito would initiate the cycle by beginning to feed on an HIV carrier and be interrupted after it had successfully drawn blood. Instead of resuming the partial blood meal on its original host, the mosquito would select an AIDS-free person to complete the meal. As it penetrated the skin of the new host, the mosquito would transfer virus particles that were adhering to the mouthparts from the previous meal. This mechanism is not common in mosquito-borne infections, but equine infectious anemia is transmitted to horses by biting flies in this manner.\n\n3. The third theoretical mechanism also involves a mosquito that is interrupted while feeding on an HIV carrier and resumes the partial blood meal on a different individual. In this scenario, however, the AIDS-free host squashes the mosquito as it attempts to feed and smears HIV contaminated blood into the wound. In theory, any of the mosquito-borne viruses could be transmitted in this manner providing the host circulated sufficient virus particles to initiate re-infection by contamination.\n\n     Each of these mechanisms has been investigated with a variety of blood sucking insects and the results clearly show that mosquitoes cannot transmit AIDS. News reports on the findings, however, have been confusing, and media interpretation of the results has not been clear. The average person is still not convinced that mosquitoes are not involved in the transmission of a disease that appears in the blood, is passed from person to person and can be contracted by persons that share hypodermic needles. Here are just some of the reasons why the studies showed that mosquitoes cannot transmit AIDS:\n\n \n\n  Mosquitoes Digest the Virus that Causes AIDS\n\n\n    When a mosquito transmits a disease agent from one person to another, the infectious agent must remain alive inside the mosquito until transfer is completed. If the mosquito digests the parasite, the transmission cycle is terminated and the parasite cannot be passed on to the next host. Successful mosquito-borne parasites have a number of interesting ways to avoid being treated as food. Some are refractory to the digestive enzymes inside the mosquito's stomach; most bore their way out of the stom
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because, you need to shower at least twice a day.\ntrust me, if you try it no flies will come near you.
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Pigs can't fly.\n\nPeople are more concerned about birds that are migratory and can carry the disease form place to place.
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Viruses are not pathogenic (harmful) to all organisms, some act as carriers with no ill effects.  Malaria has evolved to be harmful to humans, but certain mosquitos (anopheles in particular) can provide a suitable habitat in their gut for the virus, or pass the virus along from human to human via blood.  However, the virus has never mutated in such a way that it would harm the mosquitos.