Many land media reported yesterday that some time ago, a woman surnamed Liao in Xiuzhu Village, Xiyang Town, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, suddenly fell to the ground on her way home with her family after cutting grass in the village. Villagers rushed to call the 120 emergency number.
A villager told the media, “the doctor is considered experienced, came to take a look, he said may be red fire ants, after the stretcher lift, immediately injected, connected to the oxygen.”
The doctor gave the woman anti-allergy medication in the car, and after treatment, she eased up. The doctor found two small wounds on her right wrist and yellow blisters, showing that the culprit was red fire ants.
The reporter found that there were countless red fire ants in the door ping that villagers usually enter and exit, in addition, there were nests of red fire ants everywhere on the roadside and in the fields. In Zhaoqing East Lake Park in Guangdong Province, there are about 4 or 5 nests of red fire ants in less than 100 meters of the grass by the lake, and if someone accidentally steps on them, hundreds or thousands of red fire ants will crawl out of them.
As previously reported by the mainland media, babies have been bitten to death by red fire ants in mainland China.
On March 26, the Chinese Communist Party’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said that monitoring shows that red fire ants have spread to 435 counties (cities and districts) in 12 provinces (regions and municipalities), including Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan, with the south almost losing ground. In particular, 191 new red fire ants occurred in county-level administrative regions in the past five years, doubling the number in 2016.
Official reports say that nine departments, including the Communist Party’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Water Resources, Health and Welfare Commission, General Administration of Customs, State Forestry and Grass Administration, State Railway Administration, and State Post Bureau, have taken joint action to prevent the further spread of red fire ants.
According to public information, the Latin name of the red fire ant means “invincible” ant and is named because it is difficult to control. When bitten by red fire ants, the characteristics of the victim are obvious. The bite is itchy and causes allergic symptoms such as burning, pain, redness, swelling and pustules. In some allergic individuals, severe anaphylactic shock can occur, even dizziness, foaming at the mouth, difficulty breathing, convulsions, and coma. The red fire ant is widely distributed and is recognized as one of the 100 most dangerous invasive species in the world.
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