Introduction:
Since a long time, insects and vermin have been noticed because of causing nuisance to humans and other living creatures. These creatures cause a lot of nuisance to humans with their bites and stings, and sometimes their poisonous stings lead to the death of creatures. And many problems are the consequence of this bite. Sometimes bites and stings cause severe irritation and allergies. The transmission of pathogenic agents in different ways by insects and vermin and the creation of very large epidemics endanger the lives of thousands of people. It is serious and sometimes causes death.
Mosquitoes:
⚡️Medical importance:
Malaria, Bancroftia, yellow fever, dengue fever, Brugia malayi, arboviruses and viruses that cause encephalitis are diseases that are transmitted by mosquitoes.
A) Fight against larvae
1- Biological fight: use of fish such as Aphanius and Gambozia
2- Physical fight: land drainage, elimination of stagnant water, prevention From the entry of sewage into agricultural lands, filling pits and holes, creating changes in the shape of larval nests, uprooting and destroying aquatic plants. from mineral oils such as petroleum and diesel
4- Integrated combat: combining two or more methods of combat such as combining biological and chemical combat
Homemade fly:
⚡️ Medical importance:
It plays a role in the transmission of many pathogenic agents through mechanical means (returning eaten food, feces, hair on the legs of the body on surfaces and food), including:
-Viruses (such as polio, trachoma, hepatitis)
- Rickettsias and bacteria (such as Q fever, cholera, typhoid, tuberculosis, leprosy, black scar)
⚡️ ways to fight:
A) Improving the environment
-Putting waste materials and garbage in plastic garbage bags and closing them, burning and burying garbage
B) Physical struggle
>-Installing a net on the window door and ventilation of buildings
-Installing ultraviolet light traps in food stores and restaurants
c) Chemical warfare
-Using Insecticide spray
-Spraying indoor and outdoor places using persistent insecticides on the condition that there is no resistance to them
-Using ropes impregnated with insecticides
Head lice
⚡️ Medical importance:
The transmission of pediculosis, epidemic and endemic typhus, trench fever, recurrent epidemic fever, typhoid, wandering fever is caused by body lice, and impetigo is caused by head lice. br>⚡️ Ways to fight:
1- Head lice:
- Observance of personal hygiene and health education in schools
- Regular washing of the head with warm water and soap or shampoo< br>
-Combing the hair using metal or wooden combs with fine teeth
-Using special shampoos such as Permethrin 1% shampoo
-Using insecticide powder such as Permethrin 5 0% and malathion 1%
2-Body lice:
-Changing clothes
-Not using other people's clothes
-Washing clothes and sheets at a temperature of 60 degrees Celsius
-ironing clothes, especially the seams and folds of clothes
-not using contaminated sheets and clothes for 1 month
Cokes:
⚡️ Medical importance:
1- Flea bites and stings
2- Plague
3- Endemic typhus
4- Cestodes
5- Salmonellosis
⚡️ Fight:
1-Personal protection
Use of repellents such as benzyl benzoate, dimethyl phthalate and diethyl tolamide
2-Domestic animals
-Animal spraying: Malathion 2-5%, Carbaryl 3-5% and Permethrin 1%
-Environmental spraying: Malathion 2%, Diazinon 0.5% percentage (spraying should be repeated every two weeks.