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Can you outsmart insects? Your kids’ health depends on it.

May 9, 2017 by kidstra

Part l: An update on zapping mosquitoes You no longer have to visit the Amazon rain forest or equatorial Africa to pick up an exotic tropical disease. Nowadays, Zika, West Nile, Chikungunya, dengue and similar diseases can come to visit your family – at your home. Blame global warming. Believe it! Climate change has arrived! […]

Filed Under: Insects, Prevention Tagged With: antihistamines, bug proof your home, chikungunya, diseases, global warming, insecticides, insecticides safe for infants and children, mosquito netting, mosquitos, repel mosquitoes, standing water, US Environmental Protection Agency, vitamin b, west nile, zika

Travel/Children/Bedbugs

July 31, 2009 by sonicblum

The odds of your family returning home from a vacation with bedbugs are extremely small – but steadily increasing. Bedbugs have been known for centuries. But in recent decades they have kept a low profile, restricting themselves to mostly seedy establishments. No more. They are popping up all over the world, sometimes in the plushest […]

Filed Under: Insects, Prevention, Safe & Healthy Travel Tagged With: bed bug, bed bugs, bedbug, bedbugs, bedbugs bite, disease-causing organisms, exterminator, hotels, infestation, insecticides, itching, ultrasonic devices

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