Mosquitoes more attracted to beer drinkers: study

i guess its a kind of blood scent mosquito love to bite most..

I don't drink beer but they are always coming after me. Do they want to explain that to me? I have to make sure when I am outside that I have repellent on because I am so illergic to them that the bites swell so bad and I have to take allergy pills.

those who took this picture obviously didn't get the age of majority card for these young children holding the so called mugs of beer.Either that they are contributing to minors.Great reporting here Guys

Some of the things people are saying here make me laugh. I am 37 and yet I have small hands and very little hair on my arms as well. I was carded almost every day at the Casino in Toronto even though I was one of the dealers, so young looking people aren't necessarily young. I don't drink beer, but I can't remember the last time I have been bitten by any kind of bugs. I usually have high iron content in my blood because they only take donors at the blood donor clinics if your iron is high enough, and I have donated 62 times so far, so that can't be a determining factor either. I have been called a human furnace, because I give off so much more heat than anybody else I know, so again not a determining factor to bugs biting you. It's more likely a combination of factors that are just right in certain people that attract insects more than in other people. But as many people have said here, 25 people getting bitten by mosquitos is not a large enough study group. If they had compared Men and women, drinkers vs non drinkers, different ages, lifestyles, and even compared different species of mosquitos with multiple test groups at different times of the year to determine the reactions of the mosquitos, it might have some validity. How do the reserchers know that the mosquitos were hungry or not the first time, and when the second time came along, the mosquitos just wanted lunch regardless of the beer

I love how you people read this article and go "THIS IS BOGUS WHO PAYS THESE PEOPLE RRARRGGGHHH".

Notice how the article says "more attracted to". This article/study suggests the idea that mosquitoes may be attracted to people to drink beer. While it is true that there is a huge gap in the study, it does present another study I want to see done in the future:

"If mosquitoes are attracted to CO2 content, are you more attractive to mosquitoes if you burp more?"

That being said, this is only a SMALL factor in it. Besides, mosquitoes mostly go for people with less pigment in their skin/hair and vitamin B1 concentrations in their blood.

This article is misleading - mosquitoes are attracted to CO2 which humans breathe out. Because beer is a carbonated drink, it adds to the CO2 concentrations in our breath and therefore makes beer drinkers easier targets. This is one of the more useless studies done and of course the media latch on to the headline because it's so dramatic.

dont drink beer in africa

Next time I'm cutting the lawn I'm gonna throw a drunk in front of the lawnmower!

When I drink beer I never go to bed with an ugly woman but I always seem to wake up with one.

I don't often bite people who drink beer...but when I do, I prefer those who drink Dos Equis

why do there hands look really young ?

If you drink enough beer the mosquitoes wont bother you!

I don't drink beer and these things dine on me like I was a buffet table.

Beer makes you more attractive to even mosquitoes.

poor mosquito, they dont have money to buy beer thats why they just bite people who drink beer.

So because a 25 person study was done in West Africa, we here in Canada need to worry? Personally that seems like a VERY small study group to make this announcement official scientific evidence.

That doesn't look like beer. That looks like Iced Tea! Held by little kids!

they don't bite me when I drink beer in from Oct to March.

My wife and I both drink beer and she gets eaten alive but not me... explain that!!! As quoted,, who pays these folks,, I want in!!

I read the article and see a big “truck driving through it” hole in their
research.

Mosquitoes are attracted to the CO2 we expel through our breath. They hone
in on that. This is science that was proven more than 25 years ago. The
more CO2, more mosquitoes are attracted. This is also the principal behind
patio and golf range mosquito traps and gas killers used to attract
mosquitoes by having higher concentrations released than man expels.

Beer bubbles are CO2. So, mosquitoes would be attracted to that, and since
we burp CO2 from the beer, that too would attract mosquitoes.

The more CO2 present from our beer, our burping, and the party beer drinkers
simply breathing, the more attractive outdoor beer drinkers are to
mosquitoes. Ergo, the more beer we have present and/or consume the more
mosquitoes would be present.

Drink water, and there is a lower volume of CO2 emitted from a human.

This is just another example of good research money going to waste. Mosquitoes have evolved to go after beer drinkers because boozers are less defensive? Oh please! More CO2, more mosquitoes, which are hard wried to find meals by the CO2 excretion of their prey. There are a lot of IRD (Idiots R Dumb) researchers celebrating their healthy pay cheques for this useless and highly questionable research and conclusions.

This is the kind of research that really buns my butt. The information is
there. All they have to do is put two and two together to get four, instead
they get seventeen. This is like the experiment
in the 50s or 60s where “scientists” drilled holes in monkey heads and
then placed a light bulb in the hole. They attached one end of an
electrical cord to the bulb, and another up the monkeys’ butts. conclusion:
if you put enough electricity through the monkey, the light would turn on.
Brilliant (no pun). Just brilliant research.

Now why don’t those “researchers” do something "important", such as demand that beer
stop being produced as it is a producer of CO2 in our atmosphere. As much
CO2 is in the beer, there is even more released during production
and brewing. Then there is yeast! And , of course, there is all the
methane that beer consumption produces. More greenhouse gases! Someone
alert Al Gore! Oh wait. “Environmentalists” drink beer. Let’s attack
something else then, such as scientists that keep proving that the sun is the source of global warming/climate change, not man.

So, to conclude, the research is bogus, and to save the planet we have to
burn all the beer brewers to the ground. Sounds like a plan to me! And a bonus of less mosquitoes bothering us while we drink our wine.