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Drug turns human blood into poison for mosquitoes. (news.nd.edu)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (6 children)

When mosquitoes drink blood that contains nitisinone, the drug also blocks this crucial HPPD enzyme in their bodies. This prevents the mosquitoes from properly digesting the blood, causing them to quickly die.

This is starving not poisoning.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

If you look at the mechanisms of poisons, they all mess up some process in the animal or plant.

For example, Glyphosate is a very effective herbicide. It prevents plants from producing some amino aids. It "starves" the plant.

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