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|    Johanne Fairchild to JAB    |
|    Re: Mosquitoes: showers with cow urine    |
|    21 Mar 24 13:57:20    |
   
   From: jfairchild@tudado.org   
      
   JAB writes:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   [...]   
      
   > "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)."   
      
   Interesting. What kind of food contains eucalyptol?   
      
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