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Bee@mander.xyz to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

Drug turns human blood into poison for mosquitoes.

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Drug turns human blood into poison for mosquitoes.

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Bee@mander.xyz to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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Rare disease drug nitisinone makes human blood deadly to mosquitoes
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A study in Science Translational Medicine found when patients take the drug nitisinone, their blood becomes deadly to mosquitoes.
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    This has the same vibe as “the bullet didn’t kill them, it was the blood loss that got them”

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      What if the mosquito can’t drink so it goes for a protein bar instead?

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        a mosquito walks into a protein bar…

        • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.ee
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          1 month ago

          The bartender says "why the long nose?x

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