Mosquitoes can make you seriously ill, take measures!

Attention and prevention against mosquitoes is important when you consider which nasty diseases these critters can transmit, such as Malaria, Dengue, Zika, Yellow Fever and Chikungunya. Especially in the tropics, these diseases are associated with many illnesses and deaths. The general advice therefore applies to travelers: take the right protection measures against mosquitoes.
All critters
For the compatriots who live here permanently, but also the many Dutch people on holiday in this beautiful kingdom, it is useful to know a bit more about tropical diseases. The symptoms and infections of a range of often nasty diseases are often not recognized upon return to the good homeland, and are dismissed as a flu. Sometimes with fatal outcome
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