Mosquitoes are harmful and sometimes dangerous, they can carry deadly diseases: they are responsible for more than two million deaths worldwide each year. Today, with rapid transport, they travel throughout the world, and spread epidemics everywhere.
A few years ago, the tiger mosquito arrived in Europe and since then, progresses each year a little more. Its eggs are resistant to cold, drought and insecticides.
This guide explains how it develops and how to protect yourself from it on a daily basis using simple gestures: changing the water in flowers, closing the toilet seat, etc.
--Mosquitoes are often more harmful than dangerous, but when they carry diseases, these can be fatal: they are responsible for more than two million deaths each year worldwide.
Today, it is at the speed of the car, the train and the plane that they travel around the world, with their procession of potential epidemics.
For several years now, the tiger mosquito has regularly made headlines, along with zika and chikungunya.
The best way to protect yourself remains careful prevention, which will be all the more effective if you are aware of the simple actions to be taken on a daily basis. Did you know, for example, that flower water should be changed every three days? Always close the toilet seat? That mosquito eggs are resistant to cold, drought and insecticides?
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The modern mosquito, city dweller and traveler, travels the world at the speed of cars, trains and planes, followed by its procession of potential epidemics. The tiger mosquito regularly makes headlines in the news along with zika and chikungunya. The best way to protect yourself from it remains careful prevention, all the more effective if you are aware of the simple actions to be taken on a daily basis. Did you know, for example, that flower water should be changed every three days? Always close the toilet seat? That mosquito eggs are resistant to cold, drought and insecticides? Our well-being and our health depend on things as trivial as these details.
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Authors:
André Yébakima , Frédéric Simard & Laurence Farraudière
