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Insect repellent may not always keep mozzies away, study suggests
Mosquitoes can learn to be attracted to the smell of repellent, study finds Fri 29 May 2026 at 4:30am Yellow fever mosquitoes carry a number of diseases including dengue fever, which kills roughly 40,000 people each year. ( iNaturalist: Alfonso Auerbach, CC BY-NC 4.0 ) Scientists have found that mosquitoes can learn to associate repellent.
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