Preventing Mosquito Bites – Simple ways of preventing Yellow Fever & other mosquito borne diseases

How Can Yellow Fever Be Prevented?

Advise all persons, especially unvaccinated persons traveling to yellow fever risk areas, to practice strict mosquito-bite prevention measures. Such measures include the following:

•         Staying in air-conditioned or well-screened quarters

•         Minimizing exposed skin by wearing long-sleeved shirts and long pants

•         Using insect repellent containing DEET or picaridin

•         Applying permethrin-containing repellents to clothing

•         Sleeping under bed nets when air-conditioned or well-screened bedrooms are not available

•         Avoiding areas where mosquitoes breed

•         Helping to eliminate mosquito breeding sites

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