"Mosquito Bites" Top 5 Page for this destination Baghdad Warnings Or Dangers Tip by hunterV

Since Samawa is located on the banks of the Euphrates in a sandy area, we felt we were in a mosquito-danger area. I had to be aware of the terrible invisible mosquitoes that bit on the back side of the palm. They must have been sand fleas, but I am not sure. We called them “Pindino mosquito”. I still don't know what that means, but I did see the consequences of their bites when some of the Soviet specialists had been bitten by them and I had to take those men to the doctor's as an interpreter. The bites of those dangerous mosquitoes are brutal because you don't feel them biting, you just get an itchy red spot like a mosquito bite. The spot becomes bigger and bigger and grows in cycles around the wound resulting in itching decaying tissue around the bite. Lots of injections is the only treatment…I had no insect repellent and thank God I was not bitten by any flea or bug.
You can read more about those pests:
Sand flea treatment
How to avoid them
Loads of sand fleas