Hamyang-gun, "Avoid Tick Bites in Autumn"

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Hamyang-gun, Gyeongnam Province, has urged special caution to avoid tick bites as the autumn harvest season approaches, a time when outdoor activities become more active.

About 50% of patients with tick-borne infectious diseases are associated with agricultural work (including farming, gardening, and weekend farms), and more than 70% of cases occur in the autumn season. In particular, scrub typhus, a tick-borne infectious disease, occurs intensively from October to November.

Disease Control and Prevention Agency Leaflet

In this regard, public health centers, health branches, and health clinics have been conducting prevention activities since September by visiting local village chief meetings and community centers in each jurisdiction to promote information on infection routes and prevention guidelines to local residents.

The best way to prevent tick-borne infectious diseases is to avoid tick bites. To do this, it is important to minimize skin exposure by wearing long sleeves and long pants during outdoor activities such as grass cutting, ancestral grave visits, hiking, and farming; use a mat when sitting on grass; and follow prevention rules such as washing clothes immediately and taking a shower after returning home.

An official from the county public health center urged, “Since more than 70% of tick-borne infectious diseases occur in the autumn season, please adhere to prevention guidelines to avoid tick bites during outdoor activities.”

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