[Sunflower oil is efficient for removing bitumen in asphalt burn of head and hands].

This case report describes a 56-year-old male asphalt worker who was admitted to the emergency department after a work accident, where a pipe exploded and splashed 160 °C hot bitumen over his face and hands. Bitumen is the black adhesive component in asphalt, and it is soluble in oil. It was successfully removed with sunflower oil without damaging the skin.

Urban livestock-keeping and dengue in urban and peri-urban Hanoi, Vietnam.

Urban livestock provides an important source of food and income, but it may increase the risks for disease transmission. Vectors, such as mosquitoes, might increase and thereby cause an enhanced transmission of infectious diseases, such as dengue fever; considered the most important mosquito-borne viral disease globally. This cross-sectional study evaluated the awareness of dengue fever and investigated how the presence of dengue vectors is affected by the keeping of livestock in urban households in the city of Hanoi, Vietnam.

Detection of in Urban Swedish Rats: Pest Control Interventions as a Promising Source of Rats Used for Surveillance.

Rat carcasses obtained from pest control interventions can potentially be used for an efficient surveillance of zoonotic diseases such as leptospirosis. To evaluate the performance of different laboratory methods for detection of pathogenic spp., heart and kidney samples from wild Norway rats were analyzed by microscopic agglutination test (MAT, the gold standard), a commercial IgG enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and by an optimized quantitative PCR ( qPCR, followed by sequencing).