UNMC Pharmacist on Team Studying Compound As Possible Deterrent to Mosquitoes
March 24, 2017
March 24, 2017
OMAHA, Neb., March 24 -- The University of Nebraska Medical Center issued the following news release:
Mosquitoes buzz, bite, suck our blood, make us itch and worst of all spread serious, even deadly diseases, like chikungunya, dengue, malaria, yellow fever and Zika.
And if that isn't enough? "A lot of people don't realize that mosquitoes have kidneys, and when they take a blood meal from you they also urinate on you almost simultaneously," Jerod Denton, Ph . . .
Mosquitoes buzz, bite, suck our blood, make us itch and worst of all spread serious, even deadly diseases, like chikungunya, dengue, malaria, yellow fever and Zika.
And if that isn't enough? "A lot of people don't realize that mosquitoes have kidneys, and when they take a blood meal from you they also urinate on you almost simultaneously," Jerod Denton, Ph . . .