2007-10-24 22:15:10 · 6 answers · asked by janice 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Thanks to a fly, I contracted Polio! I was a toddler and two flies landed on something I was eating. Before my mum could stop me, I had eaten the food. A few days later I bacame ill and stopped using my left arm. My doctor, who had just returned to my village after working in Dumfries where there was an epidemic, diagnosed Polio. I spent the next six months in hospital. When I was discharged I had to learn to walk again and I was left with a useless left arm. DO NOT under any circumstances eat food flies have landed on. The consequences can be dangerous and may change your life forever. Not worth the risk.
2007-10-24 22:27:57 · answer #1 · answered by Tammy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can make you extremely ill. Flies love to nestle on all kinds of things, they love to suck the juices from rotting flesh, ranging from fruit, vegetables and (rotten) meat and including animal/human flesh......and excrement.
The moment a fly lands on food it will contaminate it, generally the food would be okay it it is cooked properly afterward but it does depend how long the fly has been on the food and if its laid eggs.
Food that you generally don't cook and a fly has nestled on it for a little while I would not eat.
Do you really want to eat something that had a fly sitting on it - imagine its legs on all those things I've described and now its on your food......not nice.
2007-10-25 05:29:00 · answer #2 · answered by Leu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Having re-read the question, which I thought was about food flies, the answer is potential disease.
Flies are very fond of dung, so they have trodden it over your food.
Cooking to high temperature would presumably destroy the contamination, but the thought remains.
2007-10-25 05:25:43 · answer #3 · answered by Canute 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
upset stomach , maybe a slight bit of food poisoning
people get to freaked out about this stuff
if you keep a bowl of fruit in your house anytime between spring and autumn , chances are everything you eat from it has had a fly on it
all the best
Ian
2007-10-25 05:24:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could invite health problems from contamination with bacteria and virus etc.
2007-10-25 05:20:30 · answer #5 · answered by Swamy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you'll get sick, as simple as that. by how? bt not cookin it properly.
2007-10-25 05:55:34 · answer #6 · answered by Ana N 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋