Viruses change your smell to make you more attractive to mosquitoes

by Mick Van Loon
published on Monday 04 July 2022 about 12:39 •
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Mosquitoes are the world’s deadliest animal. More than 1 million deaths per year are attributed to mosquito-borne diseases, including malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, Zika and chikungunya fever. So the new discovery that viruses change your smell to make you more attractive to mosquitoes isn’t exactly good news.

How mosquitoes seek out and feed on their hosts are important factors in how a virus circulates in nature. Mosquitoes spread see

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