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Flies act as carriers of many diseases. Explain giving suitable example.

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Answer 1

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Flies act as a vector organism in carrying the pathogen or the causative organism of a certain disease. It can spread the disease causing microorganism from one place to another very easily.

Where they can be found?

• Over food.
• Garbage and wastes.
• Sewage

When they sit on dirty and polluted places, they carry many such micro-organisms and disease causing pathogen. This is then transferred over to uncovered fresh food which enters our mouth in somewhile.

What're the diseases?

• Mostly Intestinal diseases like food positioning, typhoid, cholera etc.

• Infections in Eye (conjunctivitis)

Hence:-

We should prefer eating clean, covered and healthy food made in our homes in place of unhygienic food in roadside vendors. We should drink boiled and purified water. Maintaining proper waste management and sewage treatment in our areas. We should always prefer not to go near the dumping areas.

Answer 2

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Insects occur as vector or what you call "carrier" of many diseases.

• They can transmit by either getting infected or not getting infector at all.

For example :

• A mosquito is a disease carrying insect which can transmit malaria from one person to other.

How do flies acts as carriers of disease causing microbes :

• Flies are famous as vectors all over the globe.

• Flies sit on dead and decomposed matter or other matter where germs are present .

• When they sit the germs get attached ro the body and when it sits on the food or something the germs get transported into the food.