New Way To Fight Mosquitoes

New Way To Fight Mosquitoes.
Researchers have grounded more about how mosquitoes read skin odor, and they say their findings could lead to better repellants and traps. Mosquitoes are attracted to our pelt odor and to the carbon dioxide we exhale. Previous research found that mosquitoes have special neurons that go along with them to detect carbon dioxide. Until now, however, scientists had not pinpointed the neurons that mosquitoes use to ascertain skin odor.

The new study found that the neurons used to detect carbon dioxide are also old to identify skin odor. This means it should be easier to find ways to block mosquitoes' aptitude to zero in on people, according to the study's authors. The findings appeared in the Dec 5, 2013 outlet of the journal Cell.

And "These findings open up very realistic possibilities of developing ways to use simple, natural, affordable and engaging odors to prevent mosquitoes from finding humans," chief author Anandasankar Ray, of the University of California, Riverside, said in a journal statement release. Mosquitoes can carry dangerous diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and West Nile virus.

So "The tough experimental approaches we have developed will help us find potential solutions that we could use not only here in the United States but also in Africa, Asia and South America, where affordability is clarification in the war against these diseases. The insect olfactory combination is an excellent target to manipulate their attraction to humans and other prey. We suppose that this study will be the foundation for the discovery of a new generation of mosquito-behavior-modifying approaches" neosizeplus.men. More intelligence The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about mosquito-borne diseases.