TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Electric fly swatter: potentially harmful not only for insects?
JO  - Annals of burns and fire disasters
A1  - Ioannidis, S.
A1  - Spyropoulou, G. A.
A1  - Pavlidis, L.
A1  - Dionyssiou, D.
A1  - Demiri, E.
SP  - 130
EP  - 131
VL  - 27
IS  - 3
N2  - Electric flyswatters (sometimes called mosquito bats, racket zappers, zap rackets, or zapping rackets) are hand-held devices that resemble badminton rackets or tennis rackets, which became popular worldwide in the late 1990s. US Patent 5,519,963 was awarded to Taiwanese inventor Tsao-i Shih in 1996 for such a device. The handle contains a battery powered high voltage generator. The circuit is composed of an electronic oscillator, a step-up transformer and a voltage multiplier, similar to the circuit in an electroshock weapon or stun gun, but with lower power.    The device is 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.    KEYWORDS:    domestic devices; electric fly swatter; partial thickness burns<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1592-9558
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -