Chicken odour repels malaria mosquitoes, research in Ethiopia finds
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Re: Chicken odour repels malaria mosquitoes, research in Ethiopia finds
#2A better title would be "repels malaria mosquitoes".
Re: Chicken odour repels malaria mosquitoes, research in Ethiopia finds
#3Mosquitoes would only avoid something if being near it made them less likely to reproduce successfully. Seeing that, we've decided to surround ourselves with those things.
This concerns me a little.
Re: Chicken odour repels malaria mosquitoes, research in Ethiopia finds
#4Mosquitoes would only avoid something if being near it made them less likely to reproduce successfully. Seeing that, we've decided to surround ourselves with those things. This concerns me a little.
I don't see why it should, symbiosis is a widely spread phenomenon. We've already done it with domestic animals for example (cats against mice/rats).
Re: Chicken odour repels malaria mosquitoes, research in Ethiopia finds
#5Missing a comma perhaps? I first misread it as chicken odor prevented researchers from doing their job since it smelled so bad.
Re: Chicken odour repels malaria mosquitoes, research in Ethiopia finds
#6Mosquitoes would only avoid something if being near it made them less likely to reproduce successfully. Seeing that, we've decided to surround ourselves with those things. This concerns me a little.
You mean chickens might make it harder for humans to reproduce?
Re: Chicken odour repels malaria mosquitoes, research in Ethiopia finds
#7Mosquitoes would only avoid something if being near it made them less likely to reproduce successfully. Seeing that, we've decided to surround ourselves with those things. This concerns me a little.
You mean chickens might make it harder for humans to reproduce?
Yes, if it was a 4 foot man eating chicken[1]
Re: Chicken odour repels malaria mosquitoes, research in Ethiopia finds
#8Mosquitoes would only avoid something if being near it made them less likely to reproduce successfully. Seeing that, we've decided to surround ourselves with those things. This concerns me a little.
Chickens are not known for their predation of humans...
Re: Chicken odour repels malaria mosquitoes, research in Ethiopia finds
#9Poppycock. It is widely known that miasmas such as chicken odour are the source of disease, not a cure. In fact even the name "malaria" means "bad air" for this reason.
""" For when the morning breezes blow toward the town at sunrise, if they bring with them mist from marshes and, mingled with the mist, the poisonous breath of creatures of the marshes to be wafted into the bodies of the inhabitants, they will make the site unhealthy. """
Re: Chicken odour repels malaria mosquitoes, research in Ethiopia finds
#10Poppycock. It is widely known that miasmas such as chicken odour are the source of disease, not a cure. In fact even the name "malaria" means "bad air" for this reason. """ For when the morning breezes blow toward the town at sunrise, if they bring with them mist from marshes and, mingled with the mist, the poisonous breath of creatures of the marshes to be wafted into the bodies of the inhabitants, they will make th…
I actually really love miasma theory- as fundamentally incorrect as it is, it gets a lot right.