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  • Mosquitoes: showers with cow urine

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 20 20:41:20 2024
    Weird as it may look, Mundari and Dinka tribes of South Sudan take
    showers with cow urine because they think it's antiseptic and frees
    them from parasites and mosquitoes.

    https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1770090099675435238 ====================

    "Mosquitoes were more attracted to people whose body odours contained
    more carboxylic acids (likely produced by skin microbes), over those
    with lower levels of carboxylic acids and elevated levels of
    eucalyptol (potentially related to a person's diet)."

    https://cosmosmagazine.com/health/scientists-discover-which-body-odours-mosquitoes-prefer/


    Footnote - "The researchers were surprised by how effectively the
    mosquitoes could locate and choose between potential human meals
    within the huge arena."

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  • From Kerr-Mudd, John@21:1/5 to JAB on Thu Mar 21 09:24:16 2024
    On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 20:41:20 -0500
    JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    Weird as it may look, Mundari and Dinka tribes of South Sudan take
    showers with cow urine because they think it's antiseptic and frees
    them from parasites and mosquitoes.

    https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1770090099675435238 ====================

    "Mosquitoes were more attracted to people whose body odours contained
    more carboxylic acids (likely produced by skin microbes), over those
    with lower levels of carboxylic acids and elevated levels of
    eucalyptol (potentially related to a person's diet)."

    https://cosmosmagazine.com/health/scientists-discover-which-body-odours-mosquitoes-prefer/


    Footnote - "The researchers were surprised by how effectively the
    mosquitoes could locate and choose between potential human meals
    within the huge arena."

    They go for me every time; I must smell yummy. But I'm reluctant to source
    cow urine. (There are probably scammers out there passing off dog pee).

    --
    Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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  • From Johanne Fairchild@21:1/5 to JAB on Thu Mar 21 13:57:20 2024
    JAB <here@is.invalid> writes:

    Weird as it may look, Mundari and Dinka tribes of South Sudan take
    showers with cow urine because they think it's antiseptic and frees
    them from parasites and mosquitoes.

    [...]

    "Mosquitoes were more attracted to people whose body odours contained
    more carboxylic acids (likely produced by skin microbes), over those
    with lower levels of carboxylic acids and elevated levels of
    eucalyptol (potentially related to a person's diet)."

    Interesting. What kind of food contains eucalyptol?

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to jfairchild@tudado.org on Fri Mar 22 21:54:33 2024
    On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 13:57:20 -0300, Johanne Fairchild
    <jfairchild@tudado.org> wrote:

    What kind of food contains eucalyptol?

    https://www.acs.org/molecule-of-the-week/archive/e/eucalyptol.html

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  • From Johanne Fairchild@21:1/5 to JAB on Sat Mar 23 06:30:43 2024
    JAB <here@is.invalid> writes:

    On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 13:57:20 -0300, Johanne Fairchild
    <jfairchild@tudado.org> wrote:

    What kind of food contains eucalyptol?

    https://www.acs.org/molecule-of-the-week/archive/e/eucalyptol.html

    Bay leaves and rosemary. I have those around here. I can sort of test
    that a bit now. Thanks!

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to jfairchild@tudado.org on Sat Mar 23 09:32:58 2024
    On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 06:30:43 -0300, Johanne Fairchild
    <jfairchild@tudado.org> wrote:

    Bay leaves and rosemary. I have those around here. I can sort of test
    that a bit now. Thanks!


    Oh bummer, they won't need you in a mosquito bite trail...

    09 February 2023
    Human test subjects may no longer be needed for mosquito bite trials
    thanks to invention of new biomaterial

    https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2023/02/09/human-test-subjects-may-no-longer-be-needed-for-mosquito-bite-trials-thanks-to-invention-of-new-biomaterial/

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  • From Johanne Fairchild@21:1/5 to JAB on Sat Mar 23 12:40:45 2024
    JAB <here@is.invalid> writes:

    On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 06:30:43 -0300, Johanne Fairchild
    <jfairchild@tudado.org> wrote:

    Bay leaves and rosemary. I have those around here. I can sort of test >>that a bit now. Thanks!


    Oh bummer, they won't need you in a mosquito bite trail...

    09 February 2023
    Human test subjects may no longer be needed for mosquito bite trials
    thanks to invention of new biomaterial

    https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2023/02/09/human-test-subjects-may-no-longer-be-needed-for-mosquito-bite-trials-thanks-to-invention-of-new-biomaterial/

    Count me out of your lab.

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