Show Houseflies Carry Disease I Little was known of the disease disease- carrying ability of flies flics until the time of the Spanish American war Scientists studying the typhoid fever epidemic at Camp Chick mauga found that tho the food of soldiers so so en en- encamped encamped camped there was contaminated with the germs of the disease by bymes flies mes which had fed In the he latrines and traveled from them to tp the kitchens kitch kitch- kitchens ens and mess halls Since then it has been repeatedly shown that house flies files carry other diseases particularly those of ot the Intestinal tract itt L' i Z |