Pesticides

Pesticides are used to prevent, destroy, repel, or mitigate any pest. Though often misunderstood to refer only to insecticides, the term pesticide also applies to herbicides, fungicides, and various other substances used to control pests.

Follow the links below to find information about pesticides and other forms of pest control.

Reviewed August 2011

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Title:   Chemicals - spray drift
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Sprayed chemicals can drift over neighbouring properties and waterways. This can affect human health, animals or the environment. Spray drift can affect household and farm water supplies, including tank water.
Date:   Dec 2011
Title:   Fleas
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Fleas feed off the blood of humans and animals such as dogs and cats. A flea bite is intensely itchy and secondary infections are common. Treatment options include anaesthetic creams and icepacks to reduce the swelling. Fleas can transmit disease including tapeworm larvae and murine typhus. Fleas can also transmit bubonic plague from animals to humans in some parts of the world but not Australia.
Date:   Nov 2011
Title:   Bites and stings
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   In summer weather especially there are many biting insects around. There are some things you can do to help avoid your children being bitten.
Date:   Nov 2011
Title:   Bed bugs
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Bedbugs are oval, wingless insects, 5-6 mm long, that feed at night on any warm blooded animal including people.
Date:   Oct 2011
Title:   Bedbugs
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Bedbugs are parasites that can infest houses, particularly beds and mattresses, and feed on human blood. Their bite typically causes a large, reddened and itchy wheal. Pesticides and good hygiene practices are usually required to rid a house of bedbugs.
Date:   Sep 2011
Title:   Scabies
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Scabies is caused by small mites called Sarcoptes scabiei that burrow into the skin. The skin reacts to the mites, causing red itching bumps or blisters to form. If you develop scabies, your sexual partners and all members of your household should also be treated with a scabies cream or lotion.
Date:   Sep 2011
Title:   Pubic lice (crabs)
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Pubic lice (Phthirus pubis), or crab lice, infest pubic hair. They can also sometimes affect the hair of the armpit, eyebrows, eyelashes, beard and torso. Pubic lice are usually sexually transmitted through direct skin-to-skin contact. Lice infestation causes no serious harm, but is a warning that you should be tested for other sexually transmissible infections (STIs).
Date:   Sep 2011
Title:   Acute Reference Doses for Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals as of 30 September 2011
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   This document sets out the acute reference doses (in units of mg/kg bodyweight) for agricultural and veterinary chemicals used on food producing crops or animals, and is current at 30 September 2011
Date:   Sep 2011
Title:   Arsenic mine tailings and health
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Arsenic is a substance found in the environment. Earth extracted during mining is called mine tailings. Mine tailings near goldmines may contain high levels of arsenic and children are particularly at risk.
Date:   Aug 2011
Title:   Mosquitoes - how to avoid being their dinner
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   A mosquito is a very annoying flying insect. It is always on the lookout for blood because that is what it likes to eat. It sinks its proboscis (a hollow needle-like stinger) through your skin, and sucks up blood.
Date:   Aug 2011
Title:   Pesticides - safety when you use a pest control service
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Pesticides are toxic. If they are used carelessly they may damage the health of the person applying them or the health of other people in the community. They may also damage the environment. If you use a commercial pest control service to control pests at home, you should take precautions to minimise your exposure to these toxic substances.
Date:   Jul 2011
Title:   Pesticides - how to choose a pest control service
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   It is important to hire a professional pest control operator if you have a pest problem that is too difficult to manage yourself. Look for a pest controller who holds a Licence to use pesticides. In Victoria, this photo ID licence is issued by the Department of Health.
Date:   Jul 2011
Title:   Spiders, ants and other little biters
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Australia has more than its fair share of bitey things. Most of them are fairly shy creatures and don't bother us if we don't bother them.
Date:   May 2011
Title:   Mosquito bites
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   In all parts of Australia, mosquitoes are common pests. Mosquitoes mainly breed and bite during the summer months when people spend more time outside.
Date:   May 2011
Title:   Mosquito bites
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   In all parts of Australia mosquitoes are common pests. Mosquitoes mainly breed and bite during the summer months when people spend more time outside.
Date:   Mar 2011
Title:   Pesticides - home safety issues
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Household pesticides can cause harm to humans if not used appropriately. Household pesticides may be used to control insects like cockroaches, mosquitoes and fleas or rodents like rats and mice. Pesticides are poisonous and are especially dangerous for children, the elderly, pregnant and nursing women and animals (pets).
Date:   Feb 2011
Title:   Cockroaches
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   The cockroach is believed to spread a range of disease-producing organisms to humans including salmonella, staphylococcus and streptococcus. Cockroaches prefer warm, humid conditions with a ready food source. You can treat an infestation yourself or hire a professional pest control operator.
Date:   Feb 2011
Title:   Virus surveillance: National overview
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   This page contains an overview of arbovirus and malaria surveillance in Australia.
Date:   Nov 2010
Title:   Mosquito surveillance: National overview
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   This page contains an overview of mosquito surveillance in Western Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and the Northern Territory.
Date:   Nov 2010
Title:   Mosquitoes can carry diseases
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Mosquitoes carry many diseases that are dangerous to humans. Mosquito-borne diseases include malaria, Murray Valley encephalitis virus, Ross River virus, Barmah Forest virus and dengue fever. There are some simple things you can do to avoid mosquito bites and reduce your risk of catching mosquito-borne diseases.
Date:   Oct 2010

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