Hate Itchy Mosquito Bites? Building Up an Immunity Only Requires About 15,000 Bites Per Year

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Meet Steve Schutz . Some might say he ’s very consecrated to his employment . But others would call him downright crazy . You see Steve works in an insectarium , a place where mosquitos are born and raised . And to check its resident are well - fertilize and propagate , heserves up his bare armonce a week for dinner party .

As a result , after a feeding the 50 red welts on his abject arm barely even register as a slender shudder since Steve has build up up an unsusceptibility to the mosquito ’s saliva . Over the preceding 12 years he ’s been prick over 150,000 times , since the warm fresh blood is basically what the worm tip on out in the natural state . And it ’s just a heck of a lot easy than preparing 50 tiny insect - sized sister bottle full of blood . But it ’s all in the name of science , since the research laboratory where Steve works study the upshot of pesticides on the bugs , to quiz if , and how chop-chop , they become resistant . [ Contra Costa TimesviaDiscoblogviaGeekosystem ]