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• jcims 6y ago
  Is your blood type o-negative? Any time mosquitos are out i get bit more than anyone else by a margin.
  • trhway 6y ago
    same here. I wonder whether it is related that the O-negative is universal donor - i.e. it has lowest chance of causing immune reaction by not having all those antigens/factors, and thus i'd speculate lowest chance of "indigestion" in mosquito :) Wrt. the original post - if we put "mortality inducing" laser on a drone so it would collect the "fried" insects sparrow style then we'd have a nice protein rich dinner after half-an-hour of the drone flying around. Turning the tables so to speak.
  • monoideism 6y ago
    It's the blood group O that draws mosquitos, not a positive or negative rhesus factor: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15311477/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15311477/ I'm O-positive and am always the center of their attention. It's amazing, sometimes people don't even believe me when I tell them how often I'm being bit (because they're getting nothing).
    • jcims 6y ago
      Interesting. I just heard something about that in passing and it made sense. My father in law is type AB (and a lifelong smoker) and mosquitos completely ignore him. I'll have ten bites and they don't even get in his vicinity..
• dylan604 6y ago
  Your contribution to humanity is appreciated by the rest of us being sparred the bastards going after you. Fight well my friend!