Enjoying a cold beer on a hot day may lead to itchy skin.

Not because of the drink but the mosquitoes hovering around and about to sting you.

Researchers in the Netherlands set up shipping containers as a pop-up laboratory at Lowlands, one of the biggest music festivals in the country, in August 2023.

Those who were willing to take part in the Mosquito Magnet Trial, more than 500 volunteers, filled out a questionnaire about their diet, hygiene, drug and alcohol use, and behaviour before the test subjects placed their arms inside a special cage containing female mosquitoes. The insects could smell the skin but were unable to sting through the tiny holes.

“The Mosquito Magnet Trial, to our knowledge the largest study of its kind, was conducted in a loosely controlled setting with a selec

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