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Scientists Have Found A Way To Make You Less Attractive To Mosquitoes

Now Riffell says he has come up with a way to teach mosquitoes to hate your odor so they leave you alone.

“Swat them!” he exclaims. Just wave your hands and arms all around the buggers. You don’t even need to touch them!

Riffell and his team report that mosquitoes hate air vibrations. They make the critters feel uncomfortable.

When the vibrations are combined with a person’s unique odor, the mosquitoes start to associate this uncomfortable feeling with odor. And the critter then starts to avoid the odor, Riffell and his colleagues reportThursday in Current Biology.

And just when I thought I couldn’t get any less attractive science comes in to prove me wrong.