Washing with different soaps could make you more or less attractive to mosquitoes (IMAGE)

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Washing with different soaps could make you more or less attractive to mosquitoes

Caption

Graphical abstract showing how soaps alter the olfactory signature of human hosts, which impacts how attractive they are to mosquitoes.

Credit

VanderGiessen et al.

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