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Keywords: historical view, studies prior to World War II, studies since World War II, the fly theory for polio, Coxsackie virus, Bacillary dysentery, diarrheal disease and Shigella infections, resistance to DDT, infectious conjunctivitis, chloropid eye gnats Hippelates spp., trachoma, yaws, animal diseases, ecology of flies and disease, areas where research is needed, flies as laboratory animals, the species of flies important to public health, housefly Musca domestica, green blowfly Phaenicia sericata, black blowfly Phormia regina, population evaluation, public health significance of flies, the public responsibility, control of flies as vectors of disease agents, control of flies as agents in myiasis, control of flies as pests, new problems and the need for new control measures, flies as indicator organism