Science Confirms Some People Actually Are Mosquito Magnets

If you have ever felt like you were getting bitten by mosquitoes more often than a friend or family member right beside you, that might actually be true, and based on your unique body odor and the amount of carboxylic acid in your skin. Unfortunately, if you are "sweeter" to the mosquitoes, there may not be much you can do about it, since the chemicals in your skin apparently don't change much over time.

Now that the science is here, I suppose it won't be long before someone creates a way to measure and assign a "mosquito attractiveness score" for each of us. People already choose to go out with less attractive friends as a way to make themselves seem more attractive. I suppose this is just the outdoor version of that.