Recently, Shenzhen has entered the "dragon boat water" season, and the rain is particularly heavy. After the heavy rain, many attentive people found that in their community and beside the grass, there were many large snails that were calm and relaxed!
How big is the big snail? Many people come up with all kinds of things compared to the size of snails.
Seeing such a huge snail, many people said they were frightened.
But there are also bold people who not only catch this snail to play, but even begin to study how to eat. There are also some netizens who actually took it home as a pet!
For the above behaviors, I would like to remind all citizens and friends to be careful. This is the African large snail, is an invasive alien species, carrying pathogen bacteria, will spread tuberculosis, meningitis, encephalitis, etc., eating is extremely harmful, do not eat, it is best not to touch, away is the right way!
It is understood that the African giant snail is one of the first 16 invasive alien species in China, which is extremely harmful to crops such as vegetables, and is also a class II quarantine pest for Chinese countries entering and leaving the country. The African giant snail grows in the wild and is an intermediate host for many animal parasites and pathogenic bacteria.
Like Fushou snail, it carries Guangzhou tube roundworm (Guangdong live blood nematode), which can spread tuberculosis, meningitis, encephalitis, etc., and is extremely harmful to eat.
Longgang District Center for Disease Control and Prevention Health Education and Promotion Kegan Liqin introduced that the parasite infection rate of large snails (brown cloud agate snails) is high. Experts said that eating African large snails infected with parasites, or contacting their excrement, mucus left by crawling, etc., Guangdong live blood nematode may enter the human body, parasitize in the human central nervous system or cerebrospinal fluid, may cause fatal meningitis.
Experts remind that African snails have a lot of mucus, with a variety of bacteria, if the public's resistance to bacteria is weak, it is easy to cause allergic reactions. So, don't touch these big snails, especially small children. Don't be curious to catch African giant snails in the wild as pets.
How to get rid of the big snail? When a large number of large snails are found in the community, they can be told to the property to deal with, and companies specializing in killing pests and diseases can also deal with them. If a small number of snails are found at home, they can be treated with table salt at home. After the snail is sprinkled with table salt, the soft part will melt into water and die.
Source | Guangdong Health Information, Comprehensive CCTV News, Xinhua Net, Shenzhen Disease Control and other sources: Guangdong Health Information