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Researchers in Tanzania are developing traps using foot odors to lure mosquitoes and prevent them from spreading diseases like malaria, according to a story on LiveScience.com.

The study has found that the stinky foot smell -- either from smelly socks or synthetic bait -- is about four times more attractive to mosquitoes than the smell of a human.

Once the mosquitoes are lured away from their human meal into the trap, they are poisoned or imprisoned there until they die. （点击LiveScience网站查看原文）

臭脚或能预防疟疾

       据LiveScience网站报道，坦桑尼亚的研究者正在研究使用脚臭来诱捕蚊虫，从而避免它们传播诸如疟疾之类的疾病。

       这项研究发现，不管是袜子的臭味还是人工合成的脚臭味诱饵，对蚊子的吸引力都是人体气味的四倍左右。

       一旦蚊子受诱惑离开“人肉大餐”撞入陷阱，它们就被毒死或者困在其中，直到死亡。

(China.org.cn July 18, 2011)