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Unlocking the mystery of why mosquitoes are attracted by specific human scents but repelled by others

Carlton is recognized for her collaborative efforts with researchers and clinicians working in global public health to transfer her research from the lab to the field

Researchers created a giant sniffing arena for mosquitoes, all in hopes of understanding why they’re so drawn to us. Among other things, they found

Mosquitoes are attracted to certain smells, which explains why some people are more attractive to the annoying insects

We know a lot about mosquito preferences up close, but how do mosquitoes find us from up to a hundred meters away? Using an ice-rink-sized outdoor testing arena in Zambia, researchers found that human body odor is critical for mosquito host-seeking behavior over long distances.

The experts discovered that human body odor is a critical element in the long-range host-seeking behavior of mosquitoes.

Researchers built an ice-rink-sized arena in Zambia to learn more about how mosquitos choose their victims. Think Hunger Games, but with mosquitos.

Of the 2.6 billion children in the world, 11% or 291.2 million are estimated to have one of four developmental disabilities – epilepsy, intellectual disability, vision loss and hearing loss. Ninety-five percent of these children live in low- and middle-income countries, predominantly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, according to recent estimates.

The parasite-mosquito-human nexus spawns an incredibly complex disease challenge. Successes against malaria often don’t last, nor are they easily replicated. Yet.