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(a) How do houseflies carry disease-causing microbes (or pathogens)?

(b) State any two ways of preventing disease spread by houseflies.

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a)_House flies can carry disease by when they are strongly suspected of transmitting at leat 65 diseases to humans including typhoid fever
yawn, cholera.
Flies excrete whenever they come to rest and thereby mechanically transmit disease organisms.

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The two ways of preventing diseases spread by house flies are _

• The food should never be left uncovered during the day time as well as at night.

• Proper measures should be taken by keeping the place clean to prevent diseases.


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