Scientists have reportedly figured out how to turn your blood into mosquito poison – IOTW Report

Scientists have reportedly figured out how to turn your blood into mosquito poison

Not The Bee

For many thousands of years, whenever a mosquito has landed on a human being, the option has been pretty much just one thing: Swat it and kill it.

But this is the 21st century. And we do things the science way now. So instead of slapping the little buggers, we’re going to…

…uh, poison them with our own blood? more

21 Comments on Scientists have reportedly figured out how to turn your blood into mosquito poison

  1. Wait…..what!?
    You want me to inject a poison into my own blood to poison mosquitoes?
    Ummmm….you first.

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  2. The article says it may take 12 hours to k ill the insect. In the meantime it has already bitten you (spreading disease) and may continue to bite you until its demise.

    Sounds like it isn’t going to help anyone in the short term.

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  3. I’ll stick to caffeine, thank you very much.

    As pointed out above, once bitten you have received the disease the critters was carrying, so no real benefit there.

    While I concur with DDT comments, and much human misery is directly and indirectly inflicted, we are not smart enough to understand the ecosystem impacts of removing them from the equation.

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