By LAURA RIPARBELLI
July 13, 2011

From perfume, to the color of your shirt, right down to the smelliness of your feet, mosquitoes seem to find any reason to sink themselves into human skin.

Scientists say that stinky feet and socks can be added to the list of factors that attract mosquitoes to feed off human blood. One African scientist is now using that bit of research to help fight malaria in Tanzania by creating traps that give off chemically replicated smelly foot odors, hoping to lure the bloodsuckers that carry the disease to their hosts.

“Scientists have known for a long time that mosquitoes smell people; that they do not see us, but instead they smell us,” wrote Dr. Fredros Okumu in an email from Tanzania where he heads the research project at the Ifakara Health Institute. “It is the things that we produce in our breath, sweat of skin that [mosquitoes] use as a signal to find us. So if you are wearing socks, these skin-derived chemicals remain on the sock fabric and can still be detected by mosquitoes even after you have removed your socks.”

Okumu’s project received a $775,000 grant today from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Grand Challenges Canada to fund the traps and help further development.

But unclean feet and dirty socks aren’t the only things that entice a mosquito to go in for the kill. Experts say that Limburger cheese has also been found to be attractive to certain mosquito populations. Ned Walker, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Michigan State University, studies mosquitoes extensively. Walker said that everything from body build to the type of perfume you wear can be the difference between deterring and attracting the pests.

“There is a variation among attraction to different people … Men tend to be more attractive because they tend to be bigger than women,” said Walker, adding that the floral scents given off by deodorants and perfumes also attract some species of mosquitoes to the skin.

However, determining why some people leave a picnic covered in bites while others escape without a battle wound is still up for debate.

“There are some [species] that are attractive to the odors in humans. But what we want to know is why some mosquitoes are attracted to birds and not mammals, to some subsets of humans but not all humans. This is an active area of research,” said Walker.

Joe Conlon, technical adviser at the American Mosquito Control Association, said genetics as well as fair skin may also play a role in appealing to mosquitoes, although scientists remain unsure whether the bites are simply more noticeable on people with fair skin.

And while fair skin might be more attractive to the insects, lighter colors of clothing turn them off.

“It’s prudent to dress in light-colored clothing. There is a preference by some species to be attracted to darker colors… Wear loose fitting clothing. Mosquitoes can and will bite through tight-fitting clothing,” he said.

Conlon said that the only surefire way of preventing mosquitoes from biting is to wear a repellant, to watch what clothes you wear and to get rid of standing water that collects in places like at the bases of flower pots and in the bottom of air conditioning drip pans.

He also cautioned against using any substitutes to DEET repellants like vitamin B, saying that double blind tests have proven these remedies not to work effectively.

“In many cases, people are not fearful enough. With West Nile Virus falling off the radar, people are less concerned. … People need to [know] that they cannot just ruin your picnic, they can ruin your life,” said Conlon.

“Dr. Jones, at your cervix.”

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In a Podiatrist’s office:
“Time wounds all heels.”

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On a Septic Tank Truck:
Yesterday’s Meals on Wheels

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On a Plumber’s truck:
“We repair what your husband fixed.”

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On another Plumber’s truck:
“Don’t sleep with a drip. Call your plumber.”

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On a Church’s Bill board:
“7 days without God makes one weak.”

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At a Tyre Store
“Invite us to your next blowout.”

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On an Electrician’s truck:
“Let us remove your shorts.”

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In a Non-smoking Area:
“If we see smoke, we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.”

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On a Maternity Room door:
“Push. Push. Push.”

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At an Optometrist’s Office:
“If you don’t see what you’re looking for, you’ve come to the right place.”

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On a Taxidermist’s window:
“We really know our stuff.”

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On a Fence:
“Salesmen welcome! Dog food is expensive!”

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At a Car Dealership:
“The best way to get back on your feet – miss a car payment.”

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Outside a Car Exhaust Store:
“No appointment necessary. We hear you coming.”

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In a Vets waiting room:
“Be back in 5 minutes. Sit! Stay!”

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In a Restaurant window:
“Don’t stand there and be hungry; come on in and get fed up.”

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In the front yard of a Funeral Home:
“Drive carefully. We’ll wait.”

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And don’t forget the sign at a
RADIATOR SHOP:
“Best place in town to take a leak.”

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Sign on the back of yet another
Septic Tank Truck:
“Caution – This Truck is full of Political Promises”

She turns from you
She turns from me.

She hides in the corner
For no one to see.

The pain in her heart
The tears in her eyes.

She cries a silent song
For those to blame.

And smiles fake joy
For those who came.

By Valerie Williams
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/she-sees-poem.html

One is not born a woman, one becomes one. ~Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949

Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination. ~Marcel Proust, Albertine disparue, 1925

Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty. ~James Thurber, Time, 15 August 1960

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater. ~Bette Davis, about Jayne Mansfield

A woman’s whole life is a history of the affections. ~Washington Irving

The man’s desire is for the woman; but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

After about 20 years of marriage, I’m finally starting to scratch the surface of that one. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate. ~Mel Gibson, about what women want

Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular. ~E.V. Lucas

I’m not against half naked girls – not as often as I’d like to be. ~Benny Hill

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares. ~Elbert Hubbard

You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she’s pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment. ~Dave Barry, “Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn”

The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. ~Robert Graves

What men desire is a virgin who is a whore. ~Edward Dahlbert

Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

A woman should be an illusion. ~Ian Fleming

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. ~Stephen Stills

It is because of men that women dislike one another. ~Jean de La Bruyère, Characters, 1688

Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog. ~Caroline K. Simon

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt. ~Thomas Carlyle

Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket. ~Mary Roberts Rinehart

It’s the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time. ~Tallulah Bankhead

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. ~Karl Kraus

A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem. ~G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions, 1910

Beauty is the first present Nature gives to women, and the first it takes away. ~Méré

There’s just something about letting a girl have her way with you. ~A.C. Van Cherub

Brains are an asset, if you hide them. ~Mae West

With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her. ~John Vanbrugh, The Relapse, 1696

Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate? ~Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch, 1970

A woman can look both moral and exciting… if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. ~Edna Ferber

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them. ~Germaine Greer

Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak. ~William Shakespeare, As You Like It

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football. ~Fran Lebowitz

You’re booty-blinded. You know what that is? It’s like being snow-blinded only it ain’t no snow, it’s a cute little piece of ass. ~From the movie I Spy

Women are never landlocked: they’re always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

To get to a woman’s heart, a man must first use his own. ~Mike Dobbertin, quoted in A 5th Portion of Chicken Soup for the Soul

Through sources, we have obtained the following alien assessment of the human species: The male wants to be valued for what he pretends to be. The female wants to be overvalued for what she truly is. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Woman’s virtue is man’s greatest invention. ~Cornelia Otis Skinner, attributed

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. ~Samuel Johnson

Women speak two languages – one of which is verbal. ~William Shakespeare

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. ~James Thurber

I hate women because they always know where things are. ~Voltaire

Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman’s weapon is her tongue. ~Hermione Gingold

The people I’m furious with are the women’s liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That’s true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket. ~Anita Loos, New York Times, 10 February 1974

Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember. ~Author Unknown

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. ~H.L. Mencken

When flood comes, fish eat ants & when flood recedes, ants eat fish. Only time matters.
Just hold on, God gives opportunity to everyone!

Life is not about finding the right person, but creating the right relationship,
it’s not how we care in the beginning, but how much we care till the very end.
Some people always throw stones in your path. It depends on you what you make with them.A Wall or a Bridge? Remember you are the architect of your life.

Search for a beautiful heart, but don’t search for a beautiful face’ coz beautiful things are not always good, but good things are always beautiful.

It’s not important to hold all the good cards in life.
but it’s important how well you play with the cards you hold.

Often when we lose all hope & think this is the end, God smiles from above and says, `relax dear it’s just a bend, not the end.
Have Faith and have a successful life.

One of the basic differences between God and humans is, God gives, gives and forgives.
but the human gets, gets, gets and forgets. Be thankful in life….

Educational program for feminists from their own lips. Source – the same name VKontakte group.
If some of the ladies thinks that her beauty has no place in this vile magazine, let me write.

I hate guys … they are traitors, scum and vermin that need not deveushka and puppet sex and all the while asserting that they are the strongest

Yes .. men scoundrels. These cloths do not deserve to be on a par with women. They are lower level. Of course, not all freaks, I do not blame them, but the rest … castrate little.

95% of the male population-GOATS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are blunt, offended, do not understand the humor … and do not hold back their promises! Short bar !!!!!

I stayed in the country chopping wood, and her husband went to walk the baby in the woods, the woods he “accidentally” met as many as 3 neighbor-one that made the round eyes in a secret was told: “Do you know that your there FIREWOOD Colette “. Not otherwise it was thought that he was going to drop everything and run to resent.

I want my husband to sit with the baby in a maternity and no one accused me of it!

Oh, and most likely the men are hiding behind our backs! They are so helpless gone! Collapsing stereotypes, women are now feeding the family!

Of course not all ugly … just where to look and not ugly like to recognize them ????? Boys Hunteress Hunter stands on Guys, here’s how to live, I think – they treat us like since … And we are him as an object of interest vryamya transmission!)))

And the guy I want just sex …. relationship is not necessary … Permanent bans .. Tin ..

Actually, I have met in my life 3 types of guys: you tell him that we will not work, the first saying “fuck you, I’m still going to pursue, would you like it or not”, the latter began to say, I bitch and stupid creature, while others passed it by.
A guy I do not want to pursue, maybe, he begins to treat you, for granted.
I am a feminist, but not muzhenenivistnik. But among men does not. They all women prostitutes to keep.

I threatened that martial arts is not for women, because they interfere with their reproductive organs. I do not agree with this and I think that the struggle to deal with.

Theoretically, the world of women without men is possible – reproduction by cloning, but the world of men is not … not yet come up with an artificial “generic device”, so that men will die Beh women … they are dependent. That’s the difference.

Approximately 80% of women do not want to marry because of the 70 oz sausage is not profitable to keep the whole beast!

I respect only intellectual work. All the rest – for cattle, regardless of gender, who did not have enough brains to go to college and finish it. Dirty hands wheelbarrow does not stain!

I would gladly served in the army
men initially considered wooing of a child with something disgusting, degrading their manhood, believing that it ridiculed by his comrades.

men do go to work on heavy jobs. So, they want it and not for anything else not able to, that’s all. Anyone who is capable of – getting an education and go to work on an intellectual, well-paid job and not dusty. Sorry, cinder block and drag the animal may, for this drain is not necessary …
By the way, at the expense of “in the face,” I can stand up for themselves, really. The weakness of women – it’s a stereotype

yes I am for the Amazons! because you Murska race die out! some go a womanizer who want to shove their horseradish anybody and even though everything that moves, or guys like rags, incapable, queers, or reminding them – always chatting on the phone, as women, or alcoholics future vyebyvayuschiesya, always with a bottle beer and a cigarette in his mouth! I’m not talking about drug addicts! and there are still to be heads of families! ha! rzhunemogu, head of the family! That’s why I FOR feminism!

Housewives for people they do not think the salary for heavy domestic work no pay. A stand-alone women, many men do not recognize.

I very much sympathize with the separatist feminism, I close all the beliefs of this school, besides I still antiseksual, transhumanists and childfree

We in Moscow scared to go in the evening. In general, fear of rapists, parents do not let their daughters walk in the evening because we have men ozhno obsalyutno all.

I want to see a man beaten into a bloody mess, with a heel, hammered into his mouth, like an apple in its mouth in pigs

Last – Andrea Rita Dworkin, a feminist with a frenzied active citizenship. Was ardent opponent of pornography, believing that the actresses out there do not fuck and raped. Already died.

By the way, I understand that if for feminist rage to a snout, as if this guy, then she will not mind?

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