Today mosquitoes have gotten a lot scarier. Travelers should be more aware of all the mosquito-borne diseases that they could catch right now.
There are the ones you can get immunized against (like Yellow Fever), and like with Malaria you can get prescribe medication to prevent it. Yet, there are lots that you can’t generally avert with medications – like dengue fever, West Nile infection, Chikungunya, and now Zika infection.
Zika can bring about microcephaly in children whose moms gets infected, and it can likewise be sexually-transmitted. Which makes it that much more alarming.
So how would you abstain from something that is found in such a variety of parts of the world? In the case were you’re pregnant or attempting to get pregnant, you should stay -away locations where Zika infection is known not found.
There is only one way to prevent getting Zika or any mosquito-borne diseases – is don’t get feast upon by mosquitoes. The next two best options are: 1. get the immunizations you can (i.e. Yellow Fever), and 2. invest in some preventive items that will make it hard for mosquitoes to get to you.
Below are a list of some simple things you could use to avoid mosquito bites:
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