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How about dealing with mosquitoes/flies? I've talked to people who know what it's like living on the land in Siberia (ie. like the Yukon - permafrost and swamps) and it's a life threatening issue. You can't have any skin exposed so traditional methods of dealing with it involve things like greasing your face and using natural repelants. Again.. doable but very unpleasant and it makes it very difficult to do things in the summer.

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A friend from Sweden told me that they have a family (regional?) tradition: Get out in shorts and a shirt only at a specific time of the year (not too many mosquitoes yet or when they are very young?) to get bitten as often as possible as a measure of immunization for the rest of the year.

I think the real threat are the flies. The ones that take a chunk of flesh out of you when they bite and hurt like a bitch

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