Housecall for Health: Fighting Malaria… With Smelly Feet?

Britain Malaria Mosquito

There may be a new tool in the global war on malaria… the stench of human feet.

FOX News Radio’s Joy Piazza reports in this edition of “Housecall for Health”:

Britain Malaria Mosquitoes

Researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found mosquitoes carrying malaria are more drawn to a dirty sock with human odors than mosquitoes that were not infected.

That finding could lead to the creation of traps that target only the malaria-carrying bugs.

The challenge will be to get the perfect formula for synthetic stinky-feet smell because mosquitoes are not easily fooled.

Housecall for Health, I’m Joy Piazza, FOX News Radio.

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