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We Have Concerns

Mosquito Magnets

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Scientists have known that mosquitos are drawn to people at varying rates, but they have struggled to explain what makes certain people “mosquito magnets” while others get off bite-free. In a new paper published in the journal Cell, researchers suggest that certain body odors are the deciding factor. Jeff and Anthony draw out as much wisdom as they can from this vein, sucking every last morsel of insight.

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0:00.0

And it wasn't even a gangar. It was a Wabuffe. And we lived that way and it was terrifying.

0:23.5

This is We Have Concerns. Hi, Jeff Ganata. I have the new Carboni. Hello, Concern citizens.

0:30.5

Anthony, are you one of those people that gets a lot of mosquito bites? I'm not actually.

0:39.3

I'm not. I actually, I remember one time in New York when I was living there, we had bedbugs

0:47.4

and I didn't know it for like a week. The person that I was dating, her roommate brought

0:56.9

bedbugs home from somebody. They were dating and then my partner brought them over to my

1:01.8

place and she was like, itchy. And she was like, I don't know.

1:07.0

Is this bed, is this bed have a massager? Oh, no, that's just an entire layer of undulating

1:12.7

creature on my bed. Yeah, it's fine. I'm just in some sort of like some sort of

1:19.0

gigarian fucking egg sack that I sleep in. What's the problem? Yeah. So she was getting

1:26.6

bites and I was like, well, are you like, I don't know where are you sure? Do you know

1:31.5

where they could be? Do you know what's going on? And we did have bedbugs and like I

1:34.9

apparently was getting bit, but I didn't know and I wasn't getting bit as much as her.

1:43.2

I've always been it was the one saving grace that I had living in Florida genetically.

1:47.6

I can't deal with heat. I can't deal with humidity. I can't I'm this isn't I mean, I guess

1:55.6

it's partially genetic. I was Jewish. They don't like that. But like, at least not the part

2:03.5

of Florida that I was in, but I didn't get mosquito bites the same way everybody else

2:09.2

did. It didn't drive me nuts. Well, I'm sure you've you've been in a situation with

2:14.8

people, loved ones, friends. There's always somebody that's like, oh my God, I constantly

2:21.4

get mosquitoes love me. They love me. When I was growing up, my sister always complained

2:28.9

and you know, my family joked, my parents joked, oh, you must have delicious blood. Yeah,

2:33.8

this is just because you're so sweet. They like you because you're so sweet. You're so

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