Dr. Graham Fry

Some people don't.

It's as simple as that.

It's nothing very complicated.

I mean, you can stick a pin in yourself and you don't react.

And that's what the needle is doing.

That's what the actual proboscis is.

It's just sticking a pin through your skin.

And unless it's breaking down mast cells under the skin, you're not going to get much reaction.

But the saliva, you will potentially have an allergy to.

Okay, well, you're basing this on one research paper which has just come through.

There's a little bit of information, but very little at this stage.

And it was done under laboratory conditions which are very specialised, rather than the person out on the street lying under a sun lounger and all those sort of things.

So it's a little bit different to what we're going to see practically speaking.

So I think people need to be a little bit careful.

DETA is still by far the best way to protect you against mosquito bites.

The only question is, is that advice going to change slightly in the future?

And it's possible.

And over the next couple of weeks, months, we may see more papers coming out suggesting the same as this particular French paper does.

But at the same time, fundamentally, mosquitoes are attracted by a number of different things.

They're attracted by dark, dark clothing.