Be alert to foreign infectious diseases when traveling abroad during the Spring Festival.

In order to prevent respiratory infectious diseases such as influenza and Middle East respiratory syndrome, citizens (especially children, pregnant women, the elderly and immunocompromised people) should try to avoid going to crowded and poorly ventilated places when traveling abroad; Wear a mask when necessary to avoid contact with suspected patients with fever, cough, rash and other symptoms. In order to prevent cholera, typhoid fever and other infectious diseases spread through the digestive tract, citizens should try to drink boiled water and bottled water when traveling in areas with poor sanitary conditions abroad, avoid eating raw or undercooked meat, eggs, milk, seafood, vegetables and other foods, wash their hands frequently and maintain hand hygiene. In order to prevent infectious diseases spread by vectors such as malaria and dengue fever, citizens can use mosquito-repellent and insect-repellent equipment such as mosquito nets, screen windows and mosquito-repellent incense indoors when traveling in subtropical and tropical areas; If you go out, you can wear long-sleeved underwear and apply insect repellent to the exposed parts of your skin to avoid staying in the shade, grass, garbage stations and other places for a long time.

In addition, citizens should seek medical treatment as soon as possible if they have symptoms such as fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and rash when traveling abroad; If you still have the above symptoms at the time of entry, you should take the initiative to truthfully report to the inspection and quarantine department and cooperate with the inspection and quarantine department to implement corresponding medical and health measures; If the above symptoms appear within a short time after returning to China, you should go to the hospital immediately and inform the doctor of your recent travel history and contact history.