April 2024 is the 36th "Patriotic Health Month". An important part of this year's "Patriotic Health Month" activities is to carry out environmental sanitation rectification, carry out prevention and control of vector organisms, reduce the risk of diseases, and jointly build a healthy and livable environment.
Entering April, the weather is warmer and everything is recovering. On the one hand, all kinds of vector organisms are gradually becoming active, and on the other hand, people are outdoors and have more opportunities to come into contact with vector organisms, and the risk of vector disease transmission is also increasing.
What are vector organisms?
Vector organisms refer to organisms that can directly or indirectly transmit pathogens to humans, in addition to the common rats, mosquitoes, flies, and cockroaches in our daily life, which are often called the "four pests", including ticks that can transmit fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome, fleas that transmit plague, sandflies that transmit kala-azar and scrub mites that transmit scrub typhus.
What kind of harm can vector organisms cause?
Vector organisms can not only harass or infringe on the normal life of human beings through bites and contaminated food, but also can transmit a series of diseases, many of the legally reported infectious diseases in the mainland are vector-borne biological infectious diseases, such as plague, epidemic hemorrhagic fever, leptospirosis, Japanese encephalitis, malaria, dengue fever, etc.
In the activities of Patriotic Health Month, what should we do in the prevention and control of vector organisms?
The prevention and control of vector organisms is an important part of patriotic public health work, and we should adopt scientific prevention and control measures according to the biological characteristics of vector organisms, so as to effectively reduce the density of vector organisms and reduce the occurrence of vector biological infectious diseases.
The first is to do a good job in publicizing the prevention and control of vector organisms. Let the people grasp the habits and prevention and control measures of common vector organisms, and guide the broad masses of society to support and participate in the prevention and control of vector organisms.
The second is to carry out the management of vector biological breeding sites. Combined with the "Patriotic Health Month" activities, all localities can reduce the breeding and reproduction of vector organisms by carrying out urban and rural environmental sanitation rectification, centralized rodent eradication in spring, mobilizing the masses to clean up sanitary dead corners, and "turning over pots and cans" to remove small water bodies, so as to reduce the density of vector organisms.
The third is to improve the protection facilities for vector organisms. Install screen doors and windows in homes and offices, install air curtains in supermarkets and restaurants, and install and use rodent-proof grates, rat guards, fly lamps and other facilities in key places such as restaurants, restaurants, canteens and kitchens to prevent vector organisms from invading our living and working places.
The fourth is to scientifically carry out the sanitization of vector organisms. Households can choose some simple, effective and feasible methods: such as rodent extermination can use sticky mouse boards, rat traps, etc., mosquito coils, insecticidal aerosol cans, etc., fly swatters, sticky fly paper, etc., cockroach extermination, cockroach paper, etc., cockroach extermination, etc.
Units, communities and other public places may, according to the situation of vector organism, carry out vector organism control measures that are "environmental management first, supplemented by drug killing", and control the density of vector organisms within the scope specified in the national standards.
When outdoor activities and outings in spring,
How can I protect myself?
The first is to try to avoid staying in the wild environment with dense grass and trees.
Second, when outdoors, do not lie on the grass at will, it is best to tighten the trouser legs and cuffs, or wear a hoodie and a hat.
Third, repellents can be applied to bare skin, such as mosquito repellents containing DEET, toilet water, etc.
Fourth, after the field activities, carefully check yourself or each other to prevent ticks from attaching to your clothes. Once the tick has bitten into the skin, do not pull it raw, and should go to a professional medical institution as soon as possible to remove it.
Fifth, if you have symptoms such as fever, rash, inflammation and ulceration of the bite site and erythema after returning home, you should go to the hospital for treatment in time and take the initiative to explain the situation of the bite.
In addition, we should remind everyone that at present, Southeast Asia, Latin America and other regions, such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Brazil, Argentina and other countries have entered the epidemic season of dengue fever. When traveling to the above areas, you must take mosquito prevention measures. If you have fever, "three pains, three reds", rash and other suspected symptoms within 2 weeks after returning from the above areas, you should go to the hospital for medical treatment and explain your travel history.
Source: Shaanxi CDC