A study recently published in the Malaria
Journal just revealed a weird way of avoiding mosquito bites from Anopheles
arabiensis, the malaria-carrying specie of mosquitoes. A team of Swedish Scientists
led by Rickard Ignell, from the Swedish University of Agricultural Science, performed
a research in which finding revealed the specie of mosquitoes responsible
for transmitting malaria in the African region,
the Anopheles arabiensis avoids
chicken or the smell of chicken. The experiment which was carried out in
Ethiopia involved using some technique to monitor presence of mosquitoes in
some volunteers’ huts and analysing the results. It has opened a possibility of
developing a mosquito repellent which may evolve from chicken.
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