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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gustaf Kilander

Viruses make people more attractive to mosquitoes, study finds

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Some viruses can change a body’s odour to be more attractive to mosquitoes, a new study has found.

Penghua Wang, an assistant professor of immunology at the University of Connecticut, noted in a piece for The Conversation that mosquitos are the deadliest animal in the world, causing more than a million deaths each year from diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, Zika, and chikungunya fever.

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