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Ash Cant

Mosquitoes’ love of certain smells is how they find their victims

Some mosquitoes seek out certain smells – that might be why you always get bitten. Photo: Getty

Has science finally figured out why mosquitoes prefer some people to others?

A new study from Rockefeller University in New York found that some people attract mosquitoes by how they smell to those mosquitoes.

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