Original title: highly toxic red fire ants appear in Tokyo, which may cause shock after being bitten! Japan urgently calls for National Ant eradication source: CCTV Finance
Recently, highly toxic red fire ants have appeared in a wharf in Tokyo, Japan. In this regard, the Japanese government held an emergency meeting yesterday to deploy prevention and control work.
Qinghai Wharf in Tokyo is one of the important freight terminals in Tokyo. Since last month, more than 50 highly toxic red fire ant queens have been found here, which also makes the general public feel uneasy. In fact, the red fire ant was first found in Kobe port, about 500 kilometers away from Tokyo, in May the year before last, and then it quickly showed a trend of diffusion. Up to now, including Tokyo, 14 county-level administrative regions in Japan have found traces of red fire ants.
On the 21st local time, an emergency meeting was held at the Japanese Prime Minister's residence to deploy red fire ant control countermeasures. Chief Cabinet Secretary Kan Yiwei asked to put pesticides on the wharf where red fire ants were found, expand the investigation scope of red fire ants to the periphery of the wharf, and carry out emergency inventory at ports and airports across the country to prevent red fire ants from taking root in Japan. Kan Yiwei used 'escalation' to describe the recent discovery of red fire ant queen in Tokyo, and asked all localities to provide the medical and health departments with the latest progress of the red fire ant situation in time.
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Kan Yiwei: the level of this situation is different from that in the past. All government departments will unite and try to prevent red fire ants from taking root.
It is understood that if you are accidentally bitten by red fire ants, the toxicity of red fire ants will lead to severe pain in the wound. People with sensitive system will even have anaphylactic shock after being bitten. The winged red fire ant queen can fly a distance of 1 km and choose a suitable place to build an ant nest. Once the range of activity spreads, red fire ants are likely to take root locally. In view of the increasingly serious proliferation trend, the Japanese government calls on the people not to touch the unusual ants once they are found, and report to the relevant government departments as soon as possible.