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Any new research this year?

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[-] ving_thor@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

~~Are you blood group O? Mosquitoes seem to have a preference for certain blood types, specifically group O.~~

Seems like the paper was missinterpreted by a news article and by myself.

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[-] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 8 points 3 weeks ago

(P<0.05; 0.00) seems incidental with the study size and honestly I can't see how could they smell the blood type.

(I'm not saying they can't, I'm saying I would like to know how.)

I'm saying it may be incidental because the paper doesn't define if the population from where mosquitoes fed had a higher or lower O-type density, nor their distribution.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

This guy mosquitoes.

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