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Mosquitoes are Drawn to Your Skin Bacteria

This month’s paper (from open access journal PLoS ONE) is yet again about the impact on our health of the bacteria which have decided to call our bodies home. But, instead of the bacteria living in our gut, this month is about the bacteria which live on our skin. It’s been known that the bacteria that live on our skin help give us our particular odors.