Flight patterns reveal how mosquitoes find hosts to transmit deadly diseases

Friday, September 30, 2011 - 15:00 in Biology & Nature

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.

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