This fly, Musca domestica, was photographed during a 1972 study of disease carriers, and pests of migrant labor camps.
Annoying houseflies may spread typhoid, cholera, dysentery and diarrhea. They can carry these disease causing organisms from garbage, sewage and fecal matter to food or to a person's hands or lips.
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