BIOLOGY IN HUMAN WELFARE
HUMAN HEALTH AND DISEASE
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Avoid crowd places
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Conducting vector control
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Sanitize our hands
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Avoid personal sharing
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Detailed explanation-1: -1. Ensure your vaccinations are up to date for diseases prevalent in the area. 2. Wear light-coloured, long-sleeved shirts and long trousers, tucked into socks or boots, and use insect repellent on exposed skin and clothing to protect yourself from being bitten by mosquitoes, sandflies or ticks.
Detailed explanation-2: -Insecticides, larvicides, rodenticides, Lethal ovitraps and repellents can be used to control vectors. For example, larvicides can be used in mosquito breeding zones; insecticides can be applied to house walls or bed nets, and use of personal repellents can reduce incidence of insect bites and thus infection.
Detailed explanation-3: -Vector control aims to limit the transmission of pathogens by reducing or eliminating human contact with the vector. A wide range of vector control tools exist, which can be broadly classified into chemical-and non–chemical-based tools (Table 2).