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PREVENTION
Protect yourself and your family from Dengue
Fever. There is no cure. You can only prevent it by:
Controlling
the mosquitoes:
- Remove,
repair, or empty anything that collects rainwater such
as:
cans,
bottles, buckets, used tires, flower pots, bromeliad plants,
pineapple lilies, clogged roof gutters, hollow bamboo or tree
stumps, uncapped hollow tile walls, uncapped fence pipes,
abandoned cars, and boats.
- Check
all screen doors and windows and repair as necessary.
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Empty
and clean pet and stock watering containers at least once a
week.
- Empty
and clean flower vases at least once a week.
- Spray
the surface of breeding areas (Fish ponds, unused swimming
pools, or other large containers) with 4 – 6 ozs liquid dish
detergent in a gallon of water. Repeat every 2 – 3 days.
- Make
sure your water catchment tank is mosquito-proof.
- Eliminate
adult mosquitoes indoors with aerosol insecticides labeled for
flying insects.
Protecting
yourself
- Use
mosquito repellant containing “deet” on exposed skin
-
Dress
protectively by wearing long-sleeved shirts and long pants,
especially during the early morning hours after daybreak and
late afternoon before dark, when Aedes mosquitoes are
most active.
- Keep
unscreened windows and doors closed.
- Use
aerosol insecticides labeled for flying insects to eliminate
indoor mosquitoes.
- Remember,
while mosquito bites may not hurt, they can make you very
sick.
WHO
TO REACH
For
questions, call your health care provider or
The Hawai’I
State Department of Health
- Oahu:
586-8352
- Big
Island: 933-0912
- Maui,
Molokai, or Lanai: 984-8200
- Kauai:
241-3387
Or
Visit
http://www.hawaii.gov/doh/dengue
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