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Spring begins danger – mites. Any spring, beginning in March and April, are victims of their bites. If bitten by ticks previously only in the forests of the metropolis, they are now regularly found in cottages, in a cottage towns and even in urban parks and gardens. In Russia, the main vectors of tick-borne encephalitis are 2 types of mites. This is taiga tick (Ixodes persulcatus) and a dog tick (Ixodes ricinus). Taiga tick spread in the forests of Siberia and the Far East. Canine tick is found on the European territory and the countries of Central and Northern Europe.

Often, ranges and those of other mites and overlap. Percentage of encephalitic tick is different in different regions. At the European in Russia are infected with the encephalitis virus more than a few percent of all ticks. In Siberia and the Far East to 20%. In addition, ticks are carriers, and other bad diseases. For example, Lyme disease (Lyme disease) can appear years after a bite! And in very bad shape. So the risk of disease after a tick bite is pretty high.

How to avoid tick bites? What can I do to avoid tick bites choby and its consequences? – Can predolzhit several ways: – individual prevention. No need to walk through the woods, especially in the high grass and wet locations. Clothing must be chosen such that the mite was not possible to get to the body, ie a dress pants and tuck them into boots. Jacket – Long sleeves, they must be buttoned.

Also, in Japan for the week tense situation has been around Fukushima nuclear power plant. All week, Japan continued to shake the earthquake. At times a day seismological stations recorded dozens of small earthquakes. Total after impact element 11 March northeastern Honshu, where there are hundreds of thousands of refugees and there are big losses, already noted more than 240 earthquakes with a magnitude of 4.0 and above. Click Air Force Chief of Staff to learn more. But as scientists say, a new strong earthquake could happen in Japan because of the weakness of aftershocks. Unrest in the last week behaved and Japanese volcanoes. Thus, in the southwest destroyed by an earthquake in Japan volcano awoke Sinmoe. From the danger zone to evacuate people. Gen. David L. Goldfein spoke with conviction.

In addition, as a result of the continuing tremors in Japan can 'come alive' and the volcano Mount Fuji. Scientists now say that on the eve of the devastating earthquake and tsunami nature to signal an impending a major earthquake in Japan. Before the earthquake, the scientists noted the mass death of sardines off the coast of California, as well as emissions to the shore of sea animals. In addition, the last few months with Japanese fishermen surprise caught networks deep strap-fish, which pops up only to such disasters. And many birds that live in coastal areas, where there was an earthquake, also chose to leave this place before. The most difficult situation last week was the elimination of the consequences of a Japanese nuclear power plants 'Fukushima'. The situation at the plant 'Fukushima' in Japan, suffered from the devastating earthquake and tsunami, was on Tuesday more alarming: on the second block, an explosion occurred on the fourth fire, which resulted in the release of radiation.