Mosquitoes in sentence

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We have "number of mosquitoes attracted to the child," and we have two sets of data: before treatment and after treatment.

So it wasn't just that the people were more attractive, it was that the parasite was manipulating its host in some way to make it more attractive to mosquitoes, standing out like a beacon to attract more mosquitoes so that it could continue its life cycle.

So to do that, we had to collect the body odor from the participants, and we did this by wrapping bags around their feet, which allowed us to collect the volatile odors from their feet, and feet are really important to mosquitoes.

Now when it comes to mosquitoes and olfaction, their sense of smell, it's very complex.

And to do this, I had to brave not only the darkness, but also swarms of mosquitoes, and my sleeping bag really didn't smell very good.

People with the mutation aren't less likely to get bitten by the mosquitoes that transmit the disease, but they are less likely to get sick or die as a result.

When I first moved here, my primary role was to estimate how much malaria transmission was going on across the villages and which mosquitoes were transmitting the disease.

We rolled up our trousers, and waited for mosquitoes that were coming to bite us so we could collect them to check if they were carrying malaria.

We slept for four hours every morning and worked the rest of the day, sorting mosquitoes, identifying them and chopping off their heads so they could be analyzed in the lab to check if they were carrying malaria parasites in their blood mouthparts.

This way we were able to not only know how much malaria was going on here but also which mosquitoes were carrying this malaria.

Today, ladies and gentlemen, I still catch mosquitoes for a living.

But what do we really know about mosquitoes?

We know now that these bednets protect you from bites but only minimally kill the mosquitoes that they should.

Mosquitoes breed in small pools of water.

What my colleagues and I have decided to do is to think about what if we used mosquitoes themselves to carry the insecticides from a place of our choice to their own breeding habitats so that whichever eggs they lay there shall not survive.

And he has demonstrated cleverly that you can actually get mosquitoes to come to the place where they normally come to get blood to pick up a dose of sterilants or insecticide, carry this back to their own breeding habitat and kill all their progeny.

Here we have large-scale self-sustaining colonies of malaria mosquitoes that we rear in these facilities.

And my colleagues have demonstrated that if you just put two or three positions where mosquitoes can go pick up these lethal substances, we can crush these colonies in just three months.

But what if we could use the mosquitoes' sexual behavior to also control them?

So, first of all I would like to tell you that actually mosquitoes mate in what we call swarms.

Male mosquitoes usually congregate in clusters around the horizon, usually after sunset.

My colleagues and I believe we have a new window to get mosquitoes out of the valley.

But perhaps the fact that mosquitoes eat blood, human blood, is the reason they are the most dangerous animal on earth.

What we have done at Ifakara is to identify what it is in your skin, your body, your sweat or your breath that these mosquitoes like.

And we made a synthetic blend that was attracting three to five times more mosquitoes than a human being.

You put in a trap, lure a lot of mosquitoes and you kill them, right?

At Ifakara we wish to expand our knowledge on the biology of the mosquito; to control many other diseases, including, of course, the malaria, but also those other diseases that mosquitoes transmit like dengue, Chikungunya and Zika virus.

My love-hate relationship with mosquitoes continues.

Ladies and gentlemen, even if it doesn't happen in our lifetime, even if it doesn't happen before you and me go away, I believe that your child and my child shall inherit a world free of malaria transmitting mosquitoes and free of malaria.

What do you think of scientists using CRISPR to kill off mosquitoes?

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