It can be impregnated into cotton clothing and cotton wrist and ankle bands. DEET will make mosquitoes fly away to bite anybody close by who is not protected. It's also a good idea to spray or soak clothing with permethrin insecticide which kills mosquitoes on contact. After all, the airline relied on the statistical probability of having at least one doctor onboard. They thought it was very funny that I should even consider such a ridiculous thing.
Most times there is a doctor onboard.
We had an unexpected birth onboard an Iberia flight from Madrid to Bogota a few months ago. Everything went well. Dr. Merelo adds that Iberia plans to carry defibrillators in the case of cardiac arrest on its long-haul flights. And Rick Clements, vice president public affairs, at Singapore Airlines, points out that I should have included Singapore Airlines among the ''handful of airlines such as Virgin Atlantic, American Airlines and Qantas, that carry automatic defibrillators onboard - the only hope in the event of cardiac arrest. British Airways is another carrier that I could have mentioned.