Posted on 07/13/2011 5:13:13 AM PDT by markomalley
The smell of old socks can help fight malaria by attracting mosquitoes to a trap outdoors, scientists have found, and on Wednesday donors announced new funding to help develop the device.
Traps scented with the odor of human feet attracted four times as many mosquitoes as a human volunteer, said Dr. Fredros Okumu, the head of the research project at Tanzania's Ifakara Health Institute. Mosquitoes who fly into the trap are then poisoned.
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;-)
Oh, wait....
That explains why we had no malaria outbreaks in my college dorm...
If only my cousin had known that he might be alive today.
I would rather have malaria.
How about a little sanity????...bring back DDT!
I wonder if this writer also uses "people that"?
No kidding .... geeze... no doubt the author is a public education grad... whatever happened to excellence.
These morons will do anything to avoid talking about DDT.
I still think DDT is the more effective alternative.
Um, I’ve known many folks who were odiferously challenged who came done with malaria. And after having been around them, and having malaria myself, ........ I’ll take the malaria.
Ping a ling, decimon, thought you might enjoy this one!
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