Information and facts from The Texas Tech College Overall health Sciences Centre:

There are 4 essential places related to summertime safety vacation, swimming/water basic safety, warmth/sunlight safety, and insect basic safety. Why summertime protection? Some statistics:

Vacation

• About 1,700 circumstances of U.S. travelers abroad get malaria every single 12 months.
• Motor car crashes are #1 killer of nutritious U.S. citizens abroad.

Drinking water basic safety

• Each individual calendar year there is about 3,500 deadly unintended drownings (non-boating related) in U.S.—about 10 fatalities for each day. (added 332 people today from boating accidents)
• 1 in 5 drowning fatalities are small children ages 14 and youthful. For every single boy or girl who dies from drowning, a further 5 get ER care for nonfatal submersion accidents.
• More than 50% of drowning victims taken care of in ERs require hospitalization or further treatment.

Heat protection

• Heat kills far more than 600 people in