disease-carrying

• “Though chicken droppings might be great for the old compost heap, don't even think about having Fido help you fertilize your tomato plants—carnivore manure as page 192 helpfully points out "may contain parasites and disease-carrying microbes that can survive the decomposition process and infest your garden.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Putting the Park in Park Avenue

• “He said his hens are protected from disease-carrying rodents and other things they could come into contact with if the hen houses opened right onto pasture.”

  The Huffington Post: USDA Asked To Decide If Organic Means Outdoor

• “NEW YORK — A new public service announcement irreverently suggests one way to solve the malaria problem in Africa: Recruit a cadre of sexy mosquitoes called La Femme Mosquita to seduce and kill their disease-carrying counterparts.”

  The Huffington Post: Orlando Bloom, Celebrities Use Humor To Boost Malaria Awareness

• “The parts of the country most at risk from disease-carrying mosquitoes, says Harrington, are the Mid-Atlantic and South.”

  USA Today: Mosquitoes increase disease risk in USA

• “Warming temperatures allow disease-carrying mosquitoes to spread out of the tropics and higher into the mountains, bringing malaria, dengue fever, and other currently tropical diseases with them.”

  The Huffington Post: Paul R. Epstein, M.D., M.P.H.: The Biggest Global Health Threat of the 21st Century

• “These neighbors live in what are referred to as "primitive shelter," unable to protect themselves from disease-carrying mosquitoes and streams of rain that pass through a dirt floor.”

  The Huffington Post: Mark Hanlon: Heritage Foundation Study Encourages Americans To Understand National And International Poverty

• “But should we really treat cockroaches with compassion, or are they just disease-carrying pests to be dealt with?”

  Shambhala SunSpace » 2009 » May

• “Other common disease-carrying ticks include the Lone star tick and the American dog tick.”

  Lyme Disease

• “Residents told us that the people whose tents abut the pool are breaking out in nasty rashes and constantly fight off disease-carrying mosquitoes.”

  The Huffington Post: Vincent Warren: Haiti's Displaced: Caught Between Greedy Landlords and an Absentee Government

• “SurfAid's baseline studies for the Mentawai showed that less than 10 percent of women washed their hands after changing their baby's dirty pants and community members were defecating everywhere, even squatting over their pig pens -- raising both pork meat and squadrons of disease-carrying flies.”

  The Huffington Post: Dave Jenkins: The Sanitation Problem in Mentawai: Watch What You Eat

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