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Body odors work in concert with carbon dioxide to tip mosquitoes off to our presence, Elizabeth Tracey reports

from Health Newsfeed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts · host Elizabeth Tracey

You may not think of yourself as especially odorous but your very breath combines with scents from your body to make a human bouquet that’s especially attractive to mosquitoes. That’s according to Christopher Potter, a mosquito expert at Johns Hopkins. … Body odors work in concert with carbon dioxide to tip mosquitoes off to our presence, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

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