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Why do mosquitoes eat me alive and leave others alone?Edit: Looking for NEW information! Not the same ole. (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Any new research this year?

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[–] ving_thor@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

~~Are you blood group O? Mosquitoes seem to have a preference for certain blood types, specifically group O.~~

Seems like the paper was missinterpreted by a news article and by myself.

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[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

(P<0.05; 0.00) seems incidental with the study size and honestly I can't see how could they smell the blood type.

(I'm not saying they can't, I'm saying I would like to know how.)

I'm saying it may be incidental because the paper doesn't define if the population from where mosquitoes fed had a higher or lower O-type density, nor their distribution.

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

This guy mosquitoes.

[–] ving_thor@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, you're absolutely right.

I read the claim about the correlation between mosquito bites and blood type in a news article where this paper was linked as the source. This teaches me (again) to not blindly trust any news articles without verifying the information.

Thanks for pointing it out.