It’s a situation many of us have been faced while on holiday with a partner or a friend.>>>CONTINUE FULL READING HERE....CONTINUE READING THE ARTICLE FROM THE SOURCE
One will become absolutely covered in mosquito bites, whilst the other escapes almost completely unscathed.
And while the red, sore, bumpy bites are bad enough the buzzing assailants can also spread a host of dangerous pathogens, and are an increasing health risk in Europe.
So, what makes one person more attractive to the vampiric bloodsuckers than another?
Here MailOnline explains what experts say is, and isn’t, the key behind the phenomenon.
However, quantity of CO2 does seem to matter. Larger people naturally exhale larger quantities of carbon dioxide and it’s for this reason experts say they tend to get bitten more.
In the real world this translates to men getting bitten more than women, pregnant women getting munched more than non-pregnant women, and adults being plagued by bites more than children.
Dr Robert Jones, an expert in disease control from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said fatter people may also be targets for this reason.
‘Amongst a group of people, the proportion of bites upon an individual has been associated with the proportion of the total surface area or weight contributed by that individual to the group,’ he said.
The same logic is thought to apply to people with an increased rate of breathing like those doing exercise.>>>CONTINUE FULL READING HERE
