A few weeks ago I released videos on Diet versus natural repellents,

that we can apply to our clothes or skin.

But can the things we eat also have a repellent quality?

No word yet on vampires,

but we do have a bit of incense on garlic and other bloodsuckers.

Check it out. Are some people just more attractive to mosquitoes than others?

Apparently so, as identical twins are most likely to be similarly tasty

compared to fraternal twins who only share 50% of their DNA, demonstrating an underlying

genetic component that can be sniffed out by mosquitoes, although it's not clear it's because

some people smell better or other people just smell worse.

We know pregnant women are twice as attractive to malaria mosquitoes, and also that mosquitoes

are attracted to sweat.

Human sweat contains components that are attractive to anthropophilic, meaning human-loving,

mosquitoes.

The unique composition of human sweat appears to explain its tantalizing effect,

though sweat from some body parts are evidently more tantalizing than others, skin emanations

collected from armpits were less attractive compared to hands or feet. Here's the graph.

They think the difference may be caused by deodorant residues, since in a subsequent experiment, volunteers were asked to avoid using skin care products for five days,

and after that, no differences were detected.

The creepiest bit of research I found was this.

The parasites that caused the mosquito-borne disease malaria,

which kills hundreds of thousands

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