Khaberni - A joint scientific study conducted by researchers from Africa, Ethiopia, and Sweden revealed that mosquitoes do not bite humans randomly, but show clear preferences that make some individuals more attractive to others.
According to the researchers, these people are not always a target for mosquitoes, but only under certain conditions, as these insects are primarily attracted to human scent, body heat, and carbon dioxide emitted with exhalation.
Swedish scientist Rickard Ignell stated that mosquitoes sense these signals through precise receptors, then choose their victim based on them. He added that the first signal detected is carbon dioxide, meaning that just the act of human breathing can attract mosquitoes. He also explained that a combination of body odor and carbon dioxide can attract mosquitoes from a distance of up to 10 meters.
The researchers pointed out a number of unproven scientific hypotheses, including the hypothesis that mosquitoes are attracted to a certain blood type, confirming that these hypotheses are not related to skin, eye, or hair color.
It should be noted that each person secretes between 300 and 1000 different aromatic compounds. To determine the compounds most attractive to mosquitoes, the scientists conducted an experiment on 42 women using the Aedes aegypti mosquito, known for transmitting dengue fever and yellow fever. The results showed that mosquitoes can distinguish between 27 aromatic compounds out of approximately a thousand, which contribute to their attraction.
