United States (U.S.) and Canada Researchers inform a knowledge that is very unique. It turns out that smell on the dirty socks can be used to lure mosquitoes into deadly devices before they spread malaria."Mosquitoes are more interested in dirty feet smell of humans who were sleeping in the same place," says Dr. Fredros Okumu, from the Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania.
"We have two home experiments, at the first House in it there is a man who was sleeping and on a second home there are also human beings who are sleeping with the synthesis of odor on the socks. We realize that we get four times more mosquitoes get into a House that contain the synthesis. Later, when sprayed with insecticides all mosquitoes die, "explains Okumu.
"When a mosquito crossed complexes, they sense something that they thought it was a human being. They try biting people or devices around him, instead of the blood that they get it they instead were killed, "bright Okumu, as reported by the Straits Times, Thursday (2/7/2011).
For the discovery of this Dr Fredros Okumu prizes of USD 775 thousand from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the NGO Canada and tried his invention to be applied in a number of villages in Tanzania to measure its effect on public health.
The device will be placed outside the home in order to save human lives by using mosquito repellent NET. The expectation that the number of malaria sufferers can be reduced and there were no fatalities as a result of diseases caused by mosquitoes.
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