Are You One Of The One In Ten?

the one that mosquito's bite and leave the nine people around you unbitten? if you are good news is on the way, mosquitoes do exhibit blood-sucking preferences, say the experts, "One in 10 people are highly attractive to mosquitoes," reports Jerry Butler, PhD, professor emeritus at the University of Florida, but it's not dinner they're sucking out of you female mosquitoes -- males do not bite people -- need human blood to develop fertile eggs, and apparently, not just any one's will do, scientists do know that genetics account for a whopping 85% of our susceptibility to mosquito bites, they've also identified certain elements of our body chemistry that, when found in excess on the skin's surface, make mosquitoes swarm closer, mosquitoes target people who produce excess amounts of certain acids, such as uric acid, explains entomologist John Edman, PhD, spokesman for the Entomological Society of America, these substances can trigger mosquitoes' sense of smell, luring them to land on unsuspecting victims, but the process of attraction begins long before the landing, mosquitoes can smell their dinner from an impressive distance of up to 50 meters, explains Edman, this doesn't bode well for people who emit large quantities of carbon dioxide, so the answer is stop breathing! but really, speaking as one that always gets bitten, I wish them every success in finding a cure.