31.   The smell factor cuts down on more than mosquito bites, says Niman, an American studies professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

32.   The upside for people is fewer mosquito bites.

33.   The West Nile virus, carried by birds and transmitted to humans by mosquito bites, claimed its first North American victims in New York City last year.

34.   The virus, which is native to West Africa, mostly infects birds and mosquitoes but can also be contracted by animals and people through mosquito bites.

35.   This is no mosquito bite on your ankle.

36.   Thousands of sporozoites are usually injected into the blood with one mosquito bite, and they quickly invade the cells in the liver where they multiply.

37.   Typically, malaria protozoa are passed from person to person by mosquito bites.

38.   You may scoff about treating yourself with leaves and twigs, but perhaps you have an aloe vera plant in your bathroom for small burns and mosquito bites.

39.   A reaction would normally show up in three days and would look like a mosquito bite, Walker said.

40.   According to the Centers of Disease Control in Atlanta, infection by the Japanese encephalitis virus can only occur through a mosquito bite.