Anopheles mosquitoes are attracted Limburg cheese and smells dirty socks

"Odorous" project to support that Bill Gates has allocated 775,000 dollars - Development of traps for Anopheles mosquitoes. The invention is based on studies of the so-called winners of the Ig Nobel Prize in 2006. Fighting mosquitoes - malaria alone - will be the smell of dirty socks.

It is a means of struggle has been confirmed in an experiment where the effectiveness of the bait was tested for 10 hours - wear it all the time wearing a 26-year-old volunteer. And it turned out that this element of the wardrobe fragrant attracts 5 times the wild mosquitoes of different species. Then, in 2006, on this "discovery" just laughed. Today, scientists funded by the Gates plan to seriously use dirty socks to lure malaria mosquitoes into traps.

- Where an important role is played by the cost and feasibility, - said the head of research Fredos Okumu. - Get dirty socks is not difficult and does not need to mix chemicals. It is a thing that can be made artisanal.

Recall that the Ig Nobel (Antinobelevskoy, Ignobelevskaya) Prize - a parody of the prestigious international award - the Nobel Prize. And awards for scientific achievement, "which at first caused a laugh, and then make you think." Bart Knols and Ruurd de Jong from the Agricultural University of Wageningen (Netherlands) in 2006, received the Ig Nobel prize for the discovery of the biology of the fact that the female malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae is equally attracted to the smell of Limburg cheese and human feet.

Source: www.kp.ru

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