How safe are YOU?: CDC describes how to avoid Zika

• Don't use repellents on children under 2-months-old
• Dress children in long sleeve tops and long pants
• Cover all cribs, strollers and carriers with mosquito netting
• Never apply repellent into eyes, mouth, cuts, irritated skin or onto children's hands
• For applying repellent on children's faces, first apply to your own hands, then wipe the child's face
• It is also possible to treat clothes and gear with permethrin, which is a repellent to keep biting, chewing, scaling, soil and flying invertebrates at bay.
• The countries in which Zika has become an epidemic include Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Venezuela and Guatemala.
• One of the best ways to avoid contracting Zika is to avoid traveling to these countries and to avoid sexual contact with anyone who was recently traveled there.
• The mosquitos that carry the virus, Aedes aegypti, are found in warm regions above 6,562 feet.

"We know that mosquitos don't exist at the top of Mount Everest. The question is, how low can you go and what is the threshold where you are unlikely to find these mosquitos?"

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