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Trend of mosquito bite

MOSQUITOES feast on us for practical reasons. Only the females bite humans and they do it to get a ‘blood meal,’ deriving proteins from the blood to produce eggs. To help locate their prey, female mosquitoes use their antennae and palps, the...

Manila puts bounty on dengue-carrying mosquitoes

Residents in a central Manila neighbourhood lined up Wednesday, as dengue cases spike nationwide, to collect a bounty — one peso for every five mosquitoes, dead or alive...