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Medical News Today: Exhaled carbon dioxide alerts malaria mosquito to human presence

While human odor guides malaria mosquitoes to human homes, once they take up residence, it is exhaled carbon dioxide that triggers them to land on skin for their next blood meal.

 

 

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Uploaded on January 24, 2015