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Bee@mander.xyz to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Drug turns human blood into poison for mosquitoes.

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Drug turns human blood into poison for mosquitoes.

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Bee@mander.xyz to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Rare disease drug nitisinone makes human blood deadly to mosquitoes
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A study in Science Translational Medicine found when patients take the drug nitisinone, their blood becomes deadly to mosquitoes.
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  • mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Drug turns human blood into poison.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    until they adapt to it and become poison mosquito zombies

  • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
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    I wanna go camping with this shit so I can get revenge.

    • kratoz29@lemm.ee
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      You still get bitten, I’d say it would be a bittersweet win.

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    When mosquitoes drink blood that contains nitisinone, the drug also blocks this crucial HPPD enzyme in their bodies. This prevents the mosquitoes from properly digesting the blood, causing them to quickly die.

    This is starving not poisoning.

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      This has the same vibe as “the bullet didn’t kill them, it was the blood loss that got them”

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