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Body odors work in concert with carbon dioxide to tip mosquitoes off to our presence, Elizabeth Tracey reports

Health Newsfeed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts by Johns Hopkins Medicine

Jun 29, 20261:08Science & Medicine

You may not think of yourself as especially odorous but your very breath combines with scents from your body to make a human bouquet that’s especially attractive to mosquitoes. That’s according to Christopher Potter, a m...

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Body odors work in concert with carbon dioxide to tip mosquitoes off to our presence, Elizabeth Tracey reports is an episode from Health Newsfeed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts by Johns Hopkins Medicine. You may not think of yourself as...

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Published Jun 29, 2026, 1:08 long, audio available.