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Chemical and Plant-Based Insect Repellents: Efficacy, Safety, and Toxicity
Publication date: Available online 27 January 2016 Source:Wilderness & Environmental Medicine Author(s): James H. Diaz Most emerging infectious diseases today are arthropod-borne and cannot be prevented by vaccinations. Because insect repellents offer important topical barriers of personal protection from arthropod-borne infectious diseases, the main objectives of this article were to describe the growing threats to public health from emerging arthropod-borne infectious diseases, to define the differences between insect repellents and insecticides, and to compare the efficacies and toxicities of chemical and pla...
Source: Wilderness and Environmental Medicine - January 30, 2016 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research