What You Learn When You Put Smelly Socks In Front Of Mosquitoes
Researchers are trying to figure out what makes a mosquito more likely to bite people infected with malaria.
They made children wear socks until they got good and smelly.
Later on, they decapitated mosquitoes.
Those were two steps in an ... unusual ... study to learn why female mosquitoes (males don't bite) are more likely to feed on people with malaria than non-infected people.
But scientists haven't known exactly how the parasite that causes malaria, called Plasmodium, pulls off this manipulation
"Insects live in this hidden world of communication, they're flying, who studies mosquitoes and the diseases they spread at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
