Mosquitoes Zoom In on Pregnant Women.(study in Gambia indicates pregnant women are at greater risk from malaria-carrying mosquitoes)(Brief Article)

FDA Consumer | September 1, 2000 | Copyright

Mosquitoes seem to be attracted to pregnant women, according to scientists at the University of Durham, England, and the Medical Research Council, Gambia, who found that pregnant women are bitten by mosquitoes twice as often as non-pregnant women. The particular mosquito studied was the African malaria-carrying mosquito. The researchers suggest that the physiological changes that take place during pregnancy could cause the increased mosquito-biting. For example, women in later stages of pregnancy exhale greater volumes of air than non-pregnant women, and the several hundred ...

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