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Home - OMRF News - Archives for mosquitos

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Bodywork: Why are some people mosquito magnets?

September 14, 2021

I tend to draw mosquitoes like an ice cream truck does kids. While the same seems to hold true for my younger son, the bloodthirsty pests ignore my older son. What gives?

Filed Under: Bodywork Tagged With: bite, bugspray, DEET, diseases, McEver, mosquitos, newsok, OKC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, oklahoman, OMRF, rodger, scientist-news, summer

Can insects transmit coronavirus?

May 12, 2020

Covid-19 and other coronaviruses like SARS and MERS are spread from person to person through tiny viral droplets, not through blood.

Filed Under: COVID-19 News, News Tagged With: bite, blood, bugs, Chakravarty, coronavirus, covid19, Eliza, insect, mosquito, mosquitoes, mosquitos, news, newsok, OKC, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, oklahoman, OMRF, Pandemic, Prescott, scientist-news, stephen, ticks, virus

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