<story><title>This tiny, wearable patch makes you invisible to mosquitos</title><url>http://io9.com/this-tiny-wearable-patch-makes-you-invisible-to-mosqui-894656159</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>Just use an oscillating fan.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/science/a-low-tech-mosquito-deterrent.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;16&amp;#x2F;science&amp;#x2F;a-low-tech-mosquit...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also worth noting that previous attempts at preventing malaria in Africa have failed not because of any technological limitation, but because they view it completely differently than we do in the West.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; As medical anthropologists have consistently found, because malaria is so common in much of sub-Saharan Africa, and because the overwhelming majority of cases go away on their own, most rural Africans consider malaria a minor ailment, the way that Westerners might think of the cold or flu.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/02/opinion/la-oe-shah-20100502&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;articles.latimes.com&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;may&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;opinion&amp;#x2F;la-oe-shah-2...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>carlesfe</author><text>I tried the oscillating fan stuff, and got bitten three times in a couple of hours. Guess there are some mosquitoes which can actually fly over a fan&amp;#x27;s currents.&lt;p&gt;Local hint: in Spain, we are being invaded by the tiger mosquito[1], which is faster, stronger, and stealthier than regular mosquitoes. They don&amp;#x27;t care about oscillating fans. So don&amp;#x27;t trust the fan thingy. I would recommend DEET-based repellents or Autan, which contains Icaridin[2] and has never failed me. I&amp;#x27;ve seen those fuckers hover my legs in rage, unable to land and bite me.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aedes_albopictus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Aedes_albopictus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scjohnson.co.uk/nqcontent.cfm?a_name=Autan.uk-FAQ#Q353&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.scjohnson.co.uk&amp;#x2F;nqcontent.cfm?a_name=Autan.uk-FAQ...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>This tiny, wearable patch makes you invisible to mosquitos</title><url>http://io9.com/this-tiny-wearable-patch-makes-you-invisible-to-mosqui-894656159</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>Just use an oscillating fan.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/science/a-low-tech-mosquito-deterrent.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;16&amp;#x2F;science&amp;#x2F;a-low-tech-mosquit...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also worth noting that previous attempts at preventing malaria in Africa have failed not because of any technological limitation, but because they view it completely differently than we do in the West.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; As medical anthropologists have consistently found, because malaria is so common in much of sub-Saharan Africa, and because the overwhelming majority of cases go away on their own, most rural Africans consider malaria a minor ailment, the way that Westerners might think of the cold or flu.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/02/opinion/la-oe-shah-20100502&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;articles.latimes.com&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;may&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;opinion&amp;#x2F;la-oe-shah-2...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ams6110</author><text>Rather hard to carry an oscillating fan around with you at all times.</text></comment>