Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Malaria Patients Smell Irresistible to Mosquitoes

A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that one reason why a person suffering from malaria is bitten again by disease-carrying mosquitoes is because they find the patient's smell irresistible. Researchers at Swiss research institute ETH Zurich conducted their study on a group of mice and found that the malaria parasite, called Plasmodium, produces an irresistible cocktail of odors in the body by mixing various ...

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