Any new research this year?

  • Ving Thor
    5•3 months 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.

    source

    • massive_bereavement
      6•3 months 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.

      • Ving Thor
        2•3 months ago

        Yes, you’re absolutely right.

        I read the claim about the correlation between mosquito bites and blood type in a news article where this paper was linked as the source. This teaches me (again) to not blindly trust any news articles without verifying the information.

        Thanks for pointing it out.