Health & Safety

Beating the Dengue Carrying Aedes aegypti Mosquito at its own Game

Jun 15 2009

Author: Dr Owen T. Jones. General Manager. AgriSense-BCS Ltd on behalf of Unassigned Independent Article

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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.

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