How come mosquitoes like to bite me and not my girlfriend?

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We’ll go on a hike and I’ll get eaten alive and she won’t even get a bite.

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There is definitely evidence that attractiveness to mosquitoes is genetic.

Granted those same studies don’t exactly show the mechanisims behind it, just that it can be inherited.

Most assume that is has to do with body odor though there are definitely other opinions. I’ve seen blood type, and immune response to bites among the theories.

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