Sentences with phrase «taken against mosquito»

Reasonable precautions should be taken against mosquito - borne diseases

Not exact matches

Do take care to prevent against mosquito bites, and use bottled water for formula.

State health officials warned New Yorkers to take precautions against Zika virus and other mosquito - borne illnesses like West Nile virus, as the weather heats up.

Cuomo says while there is no cause for alarm, the state is taking aggressive action against the Aedes mosquito that can potentially spread Zika.

«While finding mosquitoes with the virus in Westchester is to be expected, their presence should serve as a reminder to all residents to remove standing water from their property and to take personal protective measures against mosquito bites when spending time outdoors,» said Westchester County Commissioner of Health Sherlita Amler, M.D.

Before health officials decide to spray it over cities again, perhaps they ought to take a look at malathion's less - than - reassuring history (see «Malathion: Fear by Year,» at left)-- remembering that DDT, too, once seemed like humanity's last, best defense against mosquito - borne diseases.

These scenarios assumed that Zika transmission would not decrease during the winter months, that preventive measures to protect against mosquito bites would not be taken, that anyone who was infected with Zika would have symptoms when they returned to their home countries, that people who were infected would return home immediately and that the home countries would not use precautions to prevent mosquito bites in their home countries.

To take advantage of this, teams at Oxford and Stanford University are using the microphones on smartphones to record a mosquito's whining wingbeat and match it against a database of known examples.

Only 1 in 3 Americans says that protecting against mosquito bites is a step that scientists think people can take to avoid the negative health effects of Zika virus, an Annenberg Public Policy Center survey found.

In addition to mosquitoes, you'll also want to take precautions against fleas and ticks which, like mosquitoes, are not only a nuisance but carry a variety of nasty diseases you'll want to avoid.

But you can take it as some sort of insurance against infections borne out of infected mosquito bite.

You should also take standard precautions against mosquito bites while in Peru, using a repellent containing DEET, making sure hostel rooms have mosquito nets on the windows and / or beds, etc..