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Which of the disease is not transmitted by house flies?
Which of the disease is not transmitted by house flies?
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The correct option is D Yellow fever
House flies are recognized as carriers of easily communicable diseases. Flies collect diseases causing pathogens on their legs and mouths when females lay eggs on decomposing organic matter such as feces, garbage and animal corpses. House flies are the carrier of diseases such typhoid, cholera and dysentery. Whereas yellow fever is caused by a flavivirus and transmitted by the bite of mosquitoes, usually the Aedes aegypti mosquito, Hence, option B is correct.
House flies are recognized as carriers of easily communicable diseases. Flies collect diseases causing pathogens on their legs and mouths when females lay eggs on decomposing organic matter such as feces, garbage and animal corpses. House flies are the carrier of diseases such typhoid, cholera and dysentery. Whereas yellow fever is caused by a flavivirus and transmitted by the bite of mosquitoes, usually the Aedes aegypti mosquito,
Hence, option B is correct.
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