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Avoiding Insect Bites
Mosquitoes and flies have a lot to answer for! They can transmit a variety of diseases. Check with us what diseases if any may be present at your destination. These are general tips to stop bites.
- Wear appropriate clothing. - long sleeves and trousers. Has to be fairly thick material.
- Spray your room or tent before going to bed with flyspray.
- Use mosquito repellant containing DEET.
- Try impregnated wrist and ankle bands
- Air conditioning eliminates mosquitoes in sleeping areas.
- Sleep in a screened room if possible, otherwise use a mosquito net. Nets impregnated with insecticide (permethrin) are particularly effective.
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Use a plug-in electric insecticide vapouriser (or smoke coils).
- Mosquitoes breed in stagnant water wherever this collects (e.g. drains, old tins, open sewers, marshes etc.) so avoid these or cover up.
- Return from country trips before dark as there is much less risk in towns and cities than in the country.
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