US Government News 2: 2022/02/16 DARPA Program to Reduce Mosquito Attraction and Biting Moves into Second Phase

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US Government News 2: 2022/02/16 DARPA Program to Reduce Mosquito Attraction and Biting Moves into Second Phase

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ImageMosquitoes are vectors of a number of diseases, and are responsible for the majority of insect bites worldwide. The insects are attracted to humans, in part, by chemicals emitted in human breath. It is the heat and volatile molecules from the human skin microbiome, however, that direct mosquitoes to specific feeding sites on the body. The ReVector program...

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