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Inventor uses stinky socks to fight malaria
BY JEFF DAVIS, POSTMEDIA NEWS JULY 13, 2011
Before developing a synthetic compound to lure mosquitoes, Okumu baited his traps with dirty old socks collected from locals in Isakara, in Southeast Tanzania.
Photograph by: Thinkstock, canada.com
The odour of stinky socks is repulsive to humans, but an African inventor has discovered it's as sweet and seductive as roses to mosquitoes.
Canadian tax dollars are helping a young Tanzanian scientist build a sophisticated mosquito trap that is poised to play a major role in the global war on malaria....
Read more: http://www.canada.com/health/Invento...#ixzz1SGBO7y5R
BY JEFF DAVIS, POSTMEDIA NEWS JULY 13, 2011
Before developing a synthetic compound to lure mosquitoes, Okumu baited his traps with dirty old socks collected from locals in Isakara, in Southeast Tanzania.
Photograph by: Thinkstock, canada.com
The odour of stinky socks is repulsive to humans, but an African inventor has discovered it's as sweet and seductive as roses to mosquitoes.
Canadian tax dollars are helping a young Tanzanian scientist build a sophisticated mosquito trap that is poised to play a major role in the global war on malaria....
Read more: http://www.canada.com/health/Invento...#ixzz1SGBO7y5R