There’s a reason some people are “mosquito magnets” … #news #fyp
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00:00Do you feel like mosquitoes bite you more than others?
00:03It might have something to do with smelling like cheese and feet.
00:07You might not necessarily smell like that to the human nose, but mosquitoes are extremely
00:12sensitive to human odor.
00:14A study published in the scientific journal Cell explains that insects seek out a chemical
00:19called carboxylic acid, which, in large amounts, can smell like cheese and feet.
00:24All humans produce this carboxylic acid through their skin, but people with more of it can
00:28be up to 100 times more likely to attract mosquitoes.
00:32And even when they took the smell receptors away from the mosquitoes, they still flocked
00:36to this chemical.