The carbon dioxide we exhale and the odors our skins emanate serve as crucial cues to female mosquitoes on the hunt for human hosts to bite and spread diseases such as malaria, dengue and yellow fever. Two entomologists at the University of California, Riverside have now performed experiments to study how female Aedes aegypti - mosquitoes that transmit yellow fever and dengue - respond to plumes of carbon dioxide and human odor...
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