When a fly lands on the food you're about to eat, there are many ways to deal with it. For example, one option is to simply throw away that once-delicious food immediately. But some people tend to think, "There's no problem, it's just a fly landing on it." If that's the case, don't forget that these seemingly tiny flies can create serious health problems. So this time, we're going to share the health harms you can suffer from consuming food that flies have landed on.
Flies can vomit onto your food
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Flies suck up the food they eat through their tube-shaped mouths. Their mouths are shaped in a way that can turn any kind of food into liquid form. In order to suck up food like this, they spit their saliva onto your food, and when you think about it, it's quite disgusting.
They can lay eggs on your food
Food that you set aside carefully, thinking you'll eat it later, can become a nest for flies. As time passes, fly eggs can turn into maggots, causing you to get food poisoning. So don't forget to carefully cover any food you set aside so that flies can't get to it.
Their legs and wings can turn your food into a breeding ground for bacteria
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We all already know that flies' bodies are full of bacteria. That's why any food a fly has landed on is also full of bacteria, which means you can catch many kinds of health-damaging infections from it.
They carry around 60 kinds of diseases
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By landing on food after coming from garbage piles and other unsanitary places, flies cause humans to suffer from at least 65 kinds of infectious diseases. These include diarrhea, dysentery, typhoid fever, and even large boils/abscesses. And it's not just humans who suffer from these infectious diseases—animals such as chickens and pigs are affected too.
Because of these harmful effects, we need to make sure to protect our food carefully from flies, don't we?
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