SAS 156 – Diseases

To reduce risk keep skin covered, sleep under a mosquito net, use insect repellents, and do not camp near swamps or stagnat water. A course of tablets, begun before exposure, can protect against malaria. Not restricted to the tropics, transmitted through saliva of female anpheles mosquito. It kills over a million people a year in Africa alone.

SAS 156 - Diseases

SAS 156 – Diseases

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SAS 050 - Animal Tracking
Rabbits are widespread and easy to catch. Most live in burrows, often in large numbers and using well worn runs - the places to set snares. Hares do not live in burrows and tend not to have regular runs. It is not possible to survive on rabbit alone, no matter how many you eat. The body needs minerals and vitamins which rabbit does not provide, make sure to balance your diet with vegetation.
SAS 116 - Moving
To make a sledge that is ideal for snow and ice, use doors and cowlings from a crashed vehicle or plane in construction. Tie lines to front runners with a bowline to the people hauling - ideally two at the fron and two at the rear.
SAS 054 - Animal Dangers & Trapping
It is easier to trap than to hunt small prey. Choice of baits and site is important. Food may be scarce, but a little used as bait may bring rewards.Be patient and give the traps tim. Animals will be wary until they get used to them - that is when they will run into them. 
SAS 131 - Rescue & Signalling
By day smoke is good locator. Have a supply of smoke-producing material ready to put on your fires. Smoke not only helps rescue aircraft find you, it also shows surface wind direction. Make sure smoke is downwind of landing site and of any panel codes you have laid so it does not obscure them from above.
SAS 017 - Judging Terrain
As you descend a terrain, it is difficult to see what is below. Try moving along a spur to see what is below. That far side of a valley will give you an idea of what's on your side. The ground can fall steeply between a distant slope and a foreground bluff. 
SAS 183 - Disaster Strategy & Volcano
Gas balls: A bundle of intensely hot gas and clean may move down the side of well of lava at velocities of more than 160 kph. Unless there is a underground safe house nearby, the sole risk of survival is to submerge under water and keep your breath for the part moment or somewhere in the vicinity it will take to pass. 
PS Family Disaster Plan (7)
Some of the Tips to survive with a family disaster plan are to Conduct a home hazard hunt by identifying the objects in the house that could be dangerous in an emergency. Take a first aid and CPR class.Have enough disaster supplies on hand. Develop an emergency communication plan. make arrangements for your pets as part of your household 
SAS 137 - Rescue & First Aid
Before approaching a casuality, check for danger from falling debris, gas traffic, etc. Switch current off before touching electrocution victims.
SAS 065 - Handling the Kill
While tissue is still warm, uproot any fragrance organs. Evacuate testicles of guys. To evacuate conceal, slice through skin as indicated. Make ring adjust back legs unequivocally above knee. Cut adjust forelegs in same put. 
SAS 163 - Medicinal Plants
The Fevers, Cough and colds can be cured by Camomile, Colt's Foot, Lungwort, Horehound, Yarrow, Musk mallow, Tree mallow, Marsh mallow, Great Mullein.
SAS 112 - Direction Finding & Weather
Weather is much more localised than climate and there can be marked variations between one small area and the next. A regular pattern of day-night change in wind direction suggests a large body of water - whether an ocean, inland sea or a lake - in the direction from which the day wind blows.
SAS 059 - Animal Trapping
Trapping is for lot of purposes. Chiefly it is polished for nourishment or hide, yet in some cases it is vanquished untamed life administration, pet exchange, zoological examples or nuisance control. Hide-bearing well evolved creatures are focused for their hide to be utilized as a part of garments and different articles. The dead creatures are cleaned, and the hide is utilized to make apparel or ...
SAS 099 - Knots
Simple Knots: These ties are briskly made and will help you perceive the more convoluted ties that accompany. Overhead Knot: Make a circle and pass the live close over through it. Overhead Loop: Fixed circle for tossing over a projection. Twofold the finish of rope and tie overhand tie with the circle. 
SAS 037 - Edible Plants
Not all parts of the trees are edible. The outer bark is inedible, but the thin inner bark of certain trees can be eaten in Spring, when sap has started to flow. Peel back bark near bottom of tree or form exposed roots to reveal inner layer. Can be eaten raw, but boiling will reduce to gelatinous mass which can be roasted and ground for use as flour. Some of the poisonous trees contain irritant ...
SAS 139 - First Aid & Choking
To prevent Asphyxiation, Pressure on chest can cause asphyxiation. In an avalanche or landslide, crouch with arms bent and elbows tucked well in to protect the chest. A climber who slips and is suspended by a rope round his chest will find it hard to breathe.
SAS 073 - Where to Camp & Building Shelter
You ought to be protected from the wind, close water but clear of any danger of flooding, with an ample supply of wood close nearby. Check above your head for dead wood in trees that might collision down in a heightened wind. don't camp opposite an amusement trail. Take notice that the intonation of running water can overwhelm different tumults which may show peril, or the intonation of quest...
SAS 126 - Sea Survival & Water Rationing
During the survival at the sea, pyrotechnic equipment must be kept secure and dry. Read carefully the instruction and beware of fire hazards. When firingflares do not point them downwards or towards yourself or anyone else. Use flares only when certain they will be seen. Fire when a plane is flying towards you, not when it has gone past.
SAS 008 - Finding Water
Look in valley bottoms where water naturally drains. If there is no stream or pool, look for patches of green vegetation and dig there. Use a big catchment area as possible, running the water off into containers.