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Annoying, yes, but will they also make you sick? UMass professor calls for more study of risk from houseflies

Por: The Boston Globe Nation September 29, 2022

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Here’s some disturbing food for thought when a housefly buzzes around your lunch. A University of Massachusetts Amherst professor is arguing that more attention needs to be paid to “synanthropic” flies — the non-biting flies that live alongside us — as potential disease carriers.“Synanthropic flies may be even more important in disease transmission than blood-sucking flies,” John Stoffolano, professor of entomology at the... + full article



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