New Way To Fight Mosquitoes

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

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

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

So "The compelling 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 tenor in the war against these diseases. The insect olfactory arrangement is an excellent target to manipulate their attraction to humans and other prey. We hold that this study will be the foundation for the discovery of a new generation of mosquito-behavior-modifying approaches" recommended site. More word The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about mosquito-borne diseases.