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Here you will find a few interesting facts about mosquitoes;
- A mosquito can "smell" its human blood dinner from a distance of up to approx 50 kilometres (30 miles) away.
- A mosquito can transmit fatal diseases such as; Malaria, Dengue Fever, Ross River Fever, and more. Around one million people die of Malaria world wide each year.
- Mosquitoes cannot transmit HIV as the virus cannot survive in the mosquito.
- It is only the female mosquito that bites as she needs blood for protein to make her eggs.
- Mosquitoes like sugary liquids such as plant plant nectar and fruit juices.
- Mosquitoes generally bite in the warmer weather.
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