Malaria: Mosquitoes reveal fatal attraction

Malaria causes the bodies of its human hosts to emit specific odors from the skin that make the hosts even more attractive to mosquitoes, which invites further bites and risks infection of more mosquitoes and wider transmission of the disease. It’s a vicious circle but one that has enabled researchers to identify the odors as organic hydrocarbons whose discovery could bring relief to a disease that claimed nearly half a million lives in 2016.
Malaria: Mosquitoes reveal fatal attraction
Malaria: Mosquitoes reveal fatal attraction
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