• Question: how do i make my blood poisonous to mosquitoes

    Asked by anon-186301 to Danny, Andy on 11 Nov 2018.
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      Danny Ward answered on 11 Nov 2018:

      We currently don’t have any safe and effective way to make our blood poisonous to mosquitoes. Scientists are working on something like this though which is showing good progress so maybe in the future, we will see a pill that is safe for us but deadly for the mosquito.
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      The best thing we can do to guard against mosquito-borne diseases is prevention. Anti-disease drugs like Anti-malarials can help minimise diseases like malaria spread to us. Mosquito repellent and mosquito nets are also really good tools to help stop mosquito bites and disease.

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