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As mentioned earlier, only larvae have been identified in water purification plants that send tap water to each household, and other regions are currently investigating where the larvae came from. You don't have to be too anxious, but you'll be worried if our home is okay, so let's take a medical look at how we affect the human body.

A medical journalist Cho Dong-chan will explain this in detail.

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This is a case reported to academia abroad last year.

A woman in her 20s who had no atopy visited a hospital for two months suffering from rhinitis and conjunctivitis.

The reason was that I worked in a factory that makes feed for fish from midget larvae and inhaled a lot of powder.

The risk of allergies is very low because live larvae in tap water cannot be inhaled in powder form.

However, if you see a lot of larvae or adults in the midget that easily turn into powder when you die, you need to be careful of allergies.

[David DQ Lee / Kosin Health and Environmental Science Professor: If (midget adult is) 3-4 days lived and died it be decomposed comes to suction the canvass fly in the air caused the allergy has been reported]

problems of the water treatment plant one or two In addition, if the number of individuals in a bay is rapidly increasing and even found in tap water, further investigation is necessary.

There are about 2,000 species of midget in the world and 50 in Korea. The midget larvae may be an indicator of heavy metal contamination in rivers.

Recently, a study published in Science magazine reported that the concentration of heavy metals in fish increases when the rivers are contaminated, and that it is related to the fact that heavy metal-clad larvae become prey for fish.

It is necessary to check the environment of our rivers by discovering larvae in the tap water.

(Video coverage: Park Hyun-cheol, video editing: Ho-jin Kim) 

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