Rare disease drug nitisinone makes human blood deadly to mosquitoes
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A study in Science Translational Medicine found when patients take the drug nitisinone, their blood becomes deadly to mosquitoes.
  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    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.

    • Halosheep@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 months ago

      This has the same vibe as “the bullet didn’t kill them, it was the blood loss that got them”