KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -House flies are carriers of easily communicable diseases. House flies carry diseases on their legs and the small hairs that cover their bodies. It takes only a matter of seconds for them to transfer these pathogens to food or touched surfaces. Diseases carried by house flies include typhoid, cholera and dysentery.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The common housefly, Musca domestica, is a vector for more than 100 serious pathogens including those causing typhoid, cholera, salmonellosis, shigellosis, dysentery, anthrax, and parasitic worms (Peter 1997).

Detailed explanation-4: -Cholera. Conjunctivitis. Dysentery. Gastroenteritis. Salmonellosis. Shigellosis. Tuberculosis. Typhoid fever.