title: Electric fly swatter: potentially harmful not only for insects?
abstract: The electric fly-swatter is a household device used widely in Greece to kill mosquitoes. It consists of a racket-shaped electrical screen which is free of toxic and other chemicals. When the screen touches the insects, the contact generates an electric flash of light and the insects are incinerated. We present the case of a 15% flame burn caused by the flash of light produced by an electric fly-swatter. According to our review of the literature, this is the second case of burn injury caused by an electric fly swatter.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ioannidis
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Spyropoulou
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pavlidis
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dionyssiou
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Demiri
keywords: domestic devices; electric fly swatter; partial thickness burns