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05/29/2018 / By Carol Anderson

SCARY: Children infected with malaria are more attractive to other mosquitoes because of specific odors released from their skin

Recent research has shown that children who are infected with malaria are more attractive to malaria-carrying mosquitoes as compared to healthy kids. It stated, children who were infected with a malaria parasite, Plasmodium, emit a specific odor which attracts mosquitoes even more. Although the finding is truly alarming, this allowed researchers to conduct further studies […]

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