A member asked:

Can i get sick or catch a disease if 2 flies landed on food exposed for hours cooked potatoes and carrots 40 year old female?

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Possible: It depends on what the flies were exposed to before landing on your food. God forbid, the flies were sitting on fecal matter with bacteria like typhoid, salmonella, or toxigenic e coli, those bugs could be transferred from the fecal matter to your food by the flies.

Answered 3/3/2013

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