"Immunity" to mosquitoes.

[Kenelm Philip]

> My advice is to eat a lot of garlic, let the little darling finish its
> meal, and don't be paranoid and it won't hurt much.

	There is, however, some danger in carrying that idea to extremes.
In the 1970s, a mosquito specialist spent some time at Sagwon, on the
Alaskan North Slope, at the peak of mosquito season. He was doing a test
on one of the ultrasonic 'mosquito repellers' (which he found actually
was a weak _attractant_, though the results probably weren't significant).
In the course of that project, he measured the number of bites he got on
the back of his hand in five minutes--and then extrapolated to the follow-
ing conclusion: if you were stripped naked and tied to a stake at Sagwon,
you would die of loss of blood in 2.5 hours.

	So don't let _all_ of the little darlings gorge themselves...

							Ken Philip
fnkwp at uaf.edu