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Old 28-06-2012, 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by mithrandir View Post
Gary, paying for an effective product is OK. Poita's link to annals.org requires you to pay to read the report, and since it was from 1998 there might have been something more recent.
Hi Andrew,

I had only read the free abstract so I am on your wavelength now.

You may find this 12 January 2007 web page (last updated 25 Feb 2010) at the
U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) Vector Borne Diseases Division of interest -
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/west..._repellent.htm

A 2008 update appears here -
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/west...entupdates.htm

This March 2008 Nature story discusses how it was believed DEET jams insects' smell sensors -
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/0803....2008.672.html

However, it is also interesting to read in this 28th April 2008 paper by researchers from the Dept. of Entomology Univ of Calif-Davis and University of Az on how it is believed DEET works
that rather than blocking 1-octen-2-ol, mosquitoes smell DEET directly and avoid it -
http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/news/0805312105.full.pdf

Last edited by gary; 28-06-2012 at 07:50 PM.
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