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Nasty, pesky, blood sucking mosquitoes. - Is it true are some people bitten more? - It's true everybody asks.
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After a three-year study, the scientists at Rockefeller University⁽¹⁾ have discovered one of the reasons why.
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Long chain carboxylic acids. - Carbox what? - Carboxylic acids, which is a fancy technical term for these greasy molecules that live on your skin.
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Bacteria eat those acids, and create a stink. - Limburger cheese, stinky cheese, blue cheese, feet foot odor. - That's the smell? - That's the smell.
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And some of us smell more than others, stand out during the study was subject 33. - We found this exceptionally a mosquito attractive person.
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Scientist Maria Elena De Obaldia led the research, Nylons worn by the subjects were placed in a device she built herself, the mosquitoes were drawn to the strongest smell.
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When you put them head to head, it's striking. - The hope is that these results will improve repellents.
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In New York, mosquitoes are an annoyance, but in much of the world they're spreading deadly diseases.
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Like yellow fever and malaria, killing more than 700 000 people a year, better repellent will save lives.
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For now here's some summer barbecue advice. - If you hang around with people who are less attractive than you, you'll be the most attractive person at the picnic.
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For those unlucky people like subject 33, the scientists say changing soaps or your diet makes no difference, the mosquitoes will find you. Stephanie Gosk, NBC News, New York.