THE SECRET WEAPON OF MOSQUITOES HAS BEEN REVEALED!!!!!









One night in my Hostel while at Abia State University, one of my protégés came to sleep with me in my room. My room is normally crowded, because everyone wants to be around star boy.😎
He was sleeping like Jonah in the belly of Titus and snoring like an old OX fan; me I couldn’t even grab some shut-eye, why? Our friendly neighborhood “mosquies”. These ones flew in from Germany; they had chainsaw like proboscis (that long thing in their mouth) and they flew with military precision; it was like they knew when I was about to sleep and they attacked anytime my eyes was shutting. To my surprise, they didn’t attack this fellow that was in gear four. Ah-ah! What kind of Ojoro is this one? Why would I suffer like this? Snoring plus mosquito bite?😱😱
Well, I think I have an answer to this.
Just like you reject certain food (like close-up and grilled Okra soup), mosquitoes also have their favourite blood types to feed on. They need your blood to develop fertile eggs, and they are picky in their quest for a blue-blood. So, here are some reasons why Mosquitoes don’t devour everyone:

1)      Your blood type: there are four basic blood types that humans possess, A, B, AB, and O. your blood is classified based on the presence or absence of certain antibodies/antigenic substances on the surface of your blood cells. Your blood type is inherited and remains the same for life. It could change because you got a bone marrow (the primary production site for red blood cells) transplant or a disease that affects the blood. An article uploaded by online journal BioOne Complete carried by a group of Japanese scientists in 2004, showed that Mosquitoes are attracted more to those of blood group O than any other blood group. Mosquitoes can determine what blood type you are by the secretions that you emit from your skin; these secretions are peculiar to the blood type you possess.  
2)      Metabolism rate: if your body works really fast and burns off energy, you would know by the amount of Carbon dioxide and heat your body emits. Mosquitoes can sense this from a mile. They use this to know that a warm blooded host and an all-night buffet is around the corner. Those of you that are forming thin, tall and sexy, come and see why Mosquitoes are drinking you dry.


3)      Smelly, sweaty bodies (feet, especially): don’t be surprised but, research has shown that the Malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum (falci baba) manipulates the mosquitoes that are infected with it to be drawn to human sweat. The parasite completes its cycle inside the human liver, and at that needs you to survive (I need you to survive…). So, it makes the mosquitoes want to suck your blood more often (and maybe eventually get squashed). So, those stinky socks, smelly underwear that are your saving plan for sweat, they are the exact things that hungry infected mosquitoes love.
4)      Finally, the kind of clothing you wear also makes them want you so badly. Even in the human world, we are so attracted to people with a high fashion sense; so are the “mosquies”. They just love your fashion; that’s why they hate bright colored clothing. They are more attracted to darker colors because it conceals them, bright colors makes it easy to notice them. 
That’s it ladies and gentlemen, the reason why I was almost munched to insanity by mosquitoes. Oh, before I forget, research shows that mosquitoes are attracted to people who are already infected by the parasite because the parasite makes the body release certain secretions that attract the mosquito.
 Please get a mosquito net, mosquito repellent, or a dog that can sniff out if you are infected by malaria parasite so you could get treated quickly.
Wait, you don’t think dogs can do that? They can actually sniff out the scent of someone who is infected with the malaria parasite. You can watch the TED video. Thank me later.
You dey feel me?😌

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