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Protection

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Authoring team

  • mosquitos bite most intensively during the night

  • screen accomodation that should be cleared of insects with a knockdown spray to eliminate mosquitoes which entered during the day; use an electrical pyrethroid vapouriser overnight

  • sleep under permethrin impregnated nets if room cannot be made completely safe from insects.

  • in evenings exposed limbs should be protected with a preparation containing diethyltoluamide

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