How some viruses make people smell extra-tasty to mosquitoes - Nature.com

Two viruses that cause tropical diseases manipulate their hosts into emitting more of a mosquito-attracting molecule.

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are drawn to mice infected with Zika or dengue viruses, which increase an infected rodents production of an odour molecule.Credit: Chine Nouvelle/SIPA/Shutterstock The virus… [+3327 chars]

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