Drug turns human blood into poison for mosquitoes.
A study in Science Translational Medicine found when patients take the drug nitisinone, their blood becomes deadly to mosquitoes.
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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.
This has the same vibe as "the bullet didn't kill them, it was the blood loss that got them"
What if the mosquito can’t drink so it goes for a protein bar instead?
a mosquito walks into a protein bar...
The bartender says "why the long nose?x
If you look at the mechanisms of poisons, they all mess up some process in the animal or plant.
For example, Glyphosate is a very effective herbicide. It prevents plants from producing some amino aids. It "starves" the plant.
Sounds like both?