Thursday, 4 August 2011

On a lighter, and smellier note...

Have you heard the one about smelly, worn socks saving hundreds of thousands of lives every year? Well it looks like it could happen!

Malarial carrying mosquitos appear to be attracted to smelly socks and in Tanzania they've been using smelly socks to lure mosquitos into an insecticide laced trap that then kills said mosquitos.

How simple is that?! And how simply ace would it be if it can be turned into an effective and commonplace method of reducing the occurrences of malarial related deaths?

This is just one of many articles on the web reporting the ongoing research......


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