Reminder: wear light colors should tick and insect bites

Recently, following the Henan appear "small insects" bite wounds, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui and other places also found such cases.

September 13, journalists from the Ministry of health, centers for disease control that experts have been isolated from patients with a new type of Bunia virus, it causes the bitten by a series of discomfort, even life-threatening.

To this end, the expert group, the Director Wang Zhongguojikongzhongxin virus the people do not need to tick and insect too scared.

The rate of transmission of pathogens from ticks and mosquitoes, the disease is preventable and controllable. Central South University Foundation medical parasitology Professor Yu further pointed out that the new Bing, autumn is the season of people traveling, is also the most vulnerable to all kinds of mosquito bites of the season, and at this point, the out of Office must do a good defense. The Ministry of health specifically gives the following measures.

One is to avoid in grassland, forest long day.

Go to outdoor, don't wear Sandals; tighten the legs or put his pants into socks or shoes; wear light colors, easy to identify insect climb; as far as possible, smooth surface of the knitted clothes, which are glued on ticks.

The second is out, bare skin applied repellents, avoiding mosquito amines.

When you use a sunscreen, sunscreen products, then apply repellents.

Third, if pets allowed to have tick and insect area travel, return, should carefully check whether pet body tick attachment.

Finally, the expert also reminded, once the mosquito bites, iodine or alcohol do local disinfection processing, such as fever, inflammation of the bite site when its symptoms, to timely treatment.

(Edit: Justin Lin, internships)