Is It Safe To Eat Food After A Fly Touches It ?

We all know that flies spread diseases just by touching on our food. Is it really true or just a myth? Lets find out.

Common house flies are seen all over the world and they love to disgust us by sitting on our tasty food right before we take a bite on it. It is estimated that there are more than 90,000 species of flies out there and the common house fly is just one of those notorious group. They are attracted to both fresh food items and rotten garbage. The nasty places like rotten carcasses, garbage, poop etc are favorite landing pads and for flies and they enjoy feeding on them. We don't care when a fly sits on a garbage bin. But when that same fly comes and sits on our tasty slice of pizza, that's something makes us go nuts. But there are some people who don't really care about a tiny fly on the pizza and most of the time they don't get sick by eating that food also.

Flies don't chew their food, they spit enzymes on the food and sucks in the diluted food. That's how they eat. So when a fly sits on your food for sometime with an intention of eating it, you're probably gonna get a little bit of fly spit on your next bite. But, fly spit is not the one that gets you sick. It's the bacteria that the fly accumulated on its legs and hair from other disgusting places it visited earlier.
Our saliva and immune system can kill a wide variety of bacteria and that is what saves us from many bacteria that flies carry on their body. So, if the fly just landed on your food for a moment or two, it's probably not going get you sick. But still, personal hygiene and a clean surrounding is always the better option.

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