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15 Essential Summer Safety Tips You Should Know

Bug Bites

While a 2002 Duke pharmacology study indicated frequent, long-term, heavy use of DEET can cause cell death in rats, used occasionally, it was found to be harmless to humans.

Granted, cell death sounds scary, but we think contracting zika virus, west nile virus, four different types of encephalitis, yellow fever, dengue fever, malaria (and more) is a whole lot scarier.

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