如何保護自己免受蜱蟲的威脅？

如何保護自己免受蜱蟲的威脅？

As the temps climb and many people head outdoors, particularly when walking through woods, underbrush, tall grasses or weeds, the chance of picking up an unwelcome hanger-on rises.

隨著氣溫的升高，許多人會前往戶外，尤其是在穿過樹林、灌木叢、高草或雜草時，撿起一個不受歡迎的“馬屁蟲”的幾率會上升。

Warmer months can get buggy. But one threat isn't a bug at all, but an arachnid (and not a spider in this case, either). Ticks can be more than an annoyance; they may transmit disease when they bite into human skin, and hold fast. And that threat is growing.

溫暖的月份可能會出問題。但威脅根本不是蟲子，而是蛛形綱動物(在本例中也不是蜘蛛)。蜱蟲不僅僅是一種煩惱;當它們緊緊抓人的皮膚并咬一口時，就會傳播疾病。而這種威脅正在加劇。

According to a report released in May by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, disease cases from mosquito, flea and tick bites in the U.S. tripled from 2004 to 2016. That coincides with a significant increase in the known range of species like the blacklegged tick, which – when infected with the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi or Borrelia mayonii – can transmit Lyme disease.

美國疾病控制與預防中心今年5月發(fā)布的一份報告顯示，2004年至2016年，美國蚊子、跳蚤和蜱蟲叮咬的病例增加了兩倍。與此同時，黑腳蜱等已知物種的數(shù)量也在顯著增加。當黑腳蜱感染了burgdorferi或Borrelia mayonii細菌后，可以傳播萊姆病。

Preventing Bites From Tick

防止被蜱蟲叮咬

First, it's important to assess the risk. Not only might you encounter ticks on a hike, but experts say increasingly that yards are in tick-prone regions; in such places, particularly where there's suitable habitat like woods or tall grasses, ticks can also pose a threat.

首先，評估風險很重要。你不僅可能在徒步旅行中遇到蜱蟲，而且專家們越來越多地表示，院子里的蜱蟲很容易滋生;在這些地方，特別是在有合適棲息地的地方，如樹林或高草，蜱蟲也會造成威脅。

Repel ticks. If you're going to be spending time in an area that's likely to have ticks, experts say it's important to take precautions to keep ticks off your skin. "Treat your clothing and gear with products that contain permethrin," Eisen says.

擊退蜱蟲。專家說，如果你要在可能有蜱蟲的地方待上一段時間，采取預防措施防止蜱蟲進入皮膚是很重要的。“用含有氯菊酯的產(chǎn)品來處理你的衣服和裝備，”Eisen說。

Keep ticks out of your backyard. Tick-tracking efforts led by Mather and other researchers have found that treating backyards for ticks is also highly effective to keep ticks out. "In a lot of people's yards, increasingly, they're finding that they live where ticks do. You can hire someone to come in and spray an effective tick-killing product, and it reduces the number of ticks. In my own yard, I've done it since I've lived there [beginning] in 1999."

讓蜱蟲遠離你的后院。馬瑟和其他研究人員領導的跟蹤蜱蟲的研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，治療后院的蜱蟲也能有效地將蜱蟲拒之門外。“在很多人的院子里，越來越多的人發(fā)現(xiàn)他們生活在蜱蟲生活的地方。“你可以雇人來噴灑一種有效的殺蜱產(chǎn)品，這樣可以減少蜱蟲的數(shù)量。在我自己的院子里，我從1999年(開始)住在那里以來就一直這樣做。”

Check for ticks. "Look in the crevices of your body, which is where ticks like to hide … so behind your ears, in the armpits, around the groin, ankles, behind your knee – those are places where ticks like to go to," Lyons says. Also, make sure to check kids and pets, and remove ticks right away.

檢查蜱蟲。里昂說:“看看你身體的縫隙，那里是蜱蟲喜歡藏身的地方……所以在你的耳朵后面，腋窩，腹股溝周圍，腳踝，膝蓋后面——這些地方都是蜱蟲喜歡藏身的地方。”此外，一定要檢查孩子和寵物，并立即清除蜱蟲。