human blood

With her blood meal visible through her transparent abdomen, the female Aedes aegypti mosquito takes flight as she leaves her host's skin surface.

Why One Dangerous Mosquito Developed A Taste For Human Blood

4:13pm July 23, 2020

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

Given the choice between an animal and a human, the Aedes aegypti species prefers ... us. A new study explains how that happened.

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