Some people seem to get eaten alive by mosquitoes each summer, while others sail through the season with nary a bite.
Certain mosquito species are attracted to, or repelled by, different subsets of people depending on the components of their body chemistry and skin microbiome, researchers report July 30 in iScience . Understanding how mosquitoes choose their hosts could help prevent the spread of mosquito-borne illnesses, including dengue, West Nile and yellow fever.
“We want to understand what people’s risks are for being bitten because all of these mosquitoes that we studied are vectors of disease,” says Matthew DeGennaro, a neurogeneticist…
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