Mosquitoes

A recent study in the UK gives light to the mystery why mosquitoes are drawn to certain people and not to others.  I am one who is always followed by mosquitoes wherever I go, with every tissue of my skin (no matter how hard I try to conceal it) a potential garden for the blood meal of these pesky mosquitoes.  It’s disgusting sometimes to see others relax in their presence while I continually scratch and worse, I get mosquito bites that are bad and big.  Repellents don’t seem to work sometimes so it’s really annoying.

Enter the results of the study that mosquitoes are drawn to people who are not so stressed out.  It’s because they’ve shown that mosquitoes are not attracted to people whose bodies secrete chemicals that are byproducts of stress and thus are offensive.  Stress as mosquito repellent. Cool!  Ergo, if mosquitoes root for you instead of others, you are less stressed than them.  Kinda comforting conclusion.  But I think this doesn’t help solve the problem.  I am still worried by their presence.

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