Beating the Dengue Carrying Aedes aegypti Mosquito at its own Game

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Beating the Dengue Carrying Aedes aegypti Mosquito at its own Game

15 Jun, 2009

Published over 16 years ago. See the latest and most current information on Health & safety.

Dr Owen T. Jones. General Manager. AgriSense-BCS Ltd
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Success of mosquitoes as insect vectors of human disease is linked to their ability to seek out, pin-point and target human hosts in preference animal hosts, achieved by strong insect attraction to specific natural profiles of volatile chemicals in sweat excreted on to the skin surface of the human body.

IET 36.2 Mar/Apr 2026

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