The house fly was once a vector of disease, but in the US that was many years ago when raw sewage was readily accessible to the flies. Now once again the house fly is becoming a potential disease vector as flies are exposed to numerous pathogenic organisms in the rural and urban settings.
Species 1: Diptera Muscidae Musca domestica (House fly)
Keywords: Zoonosis
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