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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       ====================              "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        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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