How Mosquitoes Are Drawn to Human Skin and Breath

Friday, December 6, 2013 - 10:30 in Biology & Nature

Female mosquitoes, which can transmit deadly diseases like malaria, dengue fever, West Nile virus and filariasis, are attracted to us by smelling the carbon dioxide we exhale, being capable of...

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