A new study from Rockefeller University in New York shows that some people give off a certain scent that makes them 100 times more attractive to mosquitos.
"It's funny because half of my family gets eaten alive constantly," said mother Stephanie Bressler."They literally wake up with bites every time they go outside."
Female Aedes aegypti mosquito in the process of seeking out a penetrable site on the skin surface of the human host, 2006. Image courtesy Centers for Disease Control / James Gathany.
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