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1w ago

Drug turns human blood into poison for mosquitoes.

Rare disease drug nitisinone makes human blood deadly to mosquitoes

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1w ago

Drug turns human blood into poison for mosquitoes.

news.nd.edu /news/rare-disease-drug-nitisinone-makes-human-blood-deadly-to-mosquitoes/

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This is how topical tick treatments for pets work, no?
- You mean oral, right? Oral pills against fleas and ticks poison the parasites through the blood they consume.
  
  I was actually thinking of things like Frontline that you put on their skin. The way it was explained to me is it gets absorbed and essentially makes their blood poisonous to many parasites. I know there are oral versions of these medications too but I have no experience with them

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