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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute.
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2 .Getting malaria stinks. Literally.
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3 .According to a new study, malaria victims give off odors that attracts mosquitoes.
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4 .The insects that feed on the infected sufferer are then more likely to spread the disease.
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5 .The work appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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6 .Malaria is caused by plasmodium parasites, which are transmitted by mosquitoes.
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7 .A decade ago, scientists found that Kenyan kids infected with plasmodium were more attractive to mosquitos than were kids who were parasite-free.
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8 .But they didn't know what drew the bloodsuckers to the unfortunate infected children.
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9 .To find out, researchers took mice that harbored the rodent version of malaria and put the animals in a wind chamber.
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10 .And they found that mosquitos flocked toward the infected animals, attracted by their smell alone.
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11 .By chemically analyzing the animals' scents, the researchers found that the parasites boost the levels of a variety of odorous compounds that attract mosquitoes.
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12 .So plasmodium is manipulating both its victim and its carrier to get itself spread far and wide.
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13 .The finding may help with malaria prevention: if we can mask or harness the eau d' infection, maybe we could nose the mosquitoes away from people.
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14 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
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