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  1. How to Control and Prevent Mosquito Bites In and Around Ohio Homes

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/ent-88

    environmentally-conscious people might elect to use an alternative method to repel mosquitoes. Clip-on fans that contain ... effective for taller people. Other fans without metofluthrin need to be further investigated for their ... at dawn and dusk. Factors That Make People More Attractive to Mosquitoes Some people are more ...

  2. Parasites: Cryptosporidium parvum, Cyclospora, and Giardia lamblia

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/HYG-5577

    Cyclospora. When consumed, all three parasites establish themselves in the intestinal tract of the people or ... indicates that parasitic diseases occur most frequently in the warmer months. This is the time when people ... a number of organisms that can make people sick. It is not possible to determine which pathogen is causing ...

  3. Potassium

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/hyg-5588

    Requirements Guidelines from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science recommend people ... people only consume about half of the potassium level recommended. To help increase potassium, try ...

  4. Providing Livestock Comfort at the County Fair

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/aex-155-04

    both livestock and people is compromised. Heat stress can predispose livestock to illness and even ... possible. When the temperature and humidity cannot be lowered, more air movement over people and animals ... easily be converted to tunnel ventilation as they are designed for both animals and people to be ...

  5. Northern House Mosquito

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/ent-89

    abundance and virus prevalence every summer when people, birds, and horses face the greatest risk of ... represents cases where the disease was serious enough for the person to go into the hospital. People over the ... October. Most people who are infected with WNV experience mild, cold-like symptoms, including a fever and ...

  6. Bee, Wasp, Hornet, and Yellow Jacket Stings for Trainers and Supervisors

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/aex-892203

    Between 1 and 2 million people in the United States are very allergic to stinging insect venom. Every year ... 90 to 100 people die from sting reactions. Many more deaths may happen, mistakenly diagnosed as heart ... attacks or sunstrokes or attributed to other causes. More people die yearly from the effects of insect ...

  7. Native Shrubs: Creating Living Landscapes for Birds, Butterflies, Bees, and Other Beneficials

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/hyg-5813

    to birds and mammals and is edible to people either raw or cooked. Attractive purple to red fall ...

  8. Safe Use of Harvesting Equipment with Cutterbars

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/aex-59129

    rotating disks can severely injure people or animals. Crop residue, rocks, or other debris that are thrown ... and rotating disks can severely injure people and animals. T F 2. When pulling crops out of ...

  9. Frequently Asked Questions About Birds and West Nile Virus

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/WNV-1000

    to people by the bite of an infected mosquito. The principal transmitter of WNV is the northern house ... infected with WNV. Once the mosquito is infected, it may transmit the virus to people or other animals when ... from the infection. Horses, too, are prone to severe WNV infection. People cannot get WNV from another ...

  10. Ultraviolet Light Exposure: Health Concerns

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/cdfs-199

    This melanin gives a tanned look, which is damage to the skin. For people who naturally are darker ... skinned, the melanin in their skin provides them with some protection against sunburns. Fair-skinned people ... including redheads, blondes and people with blue or light green eyes burn more quickly due to less melanin ...

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