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   Mosquitoes: showers with cow urine   
   20 Mar 24 20:41:20   
   
   From: here@is.invalid   
      
   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   
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   "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."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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