Interesting - Did You Know???

Weird Factoid of the Day...

Now most of us know the disease Malaria is spread via mosquitoes.

But, did you know that most people who contract the disease Malaria by the mosquitoes who carry the disease...are bitten on the feet?

And even weirder still is how this was discovered! It was discovered because of research into why Limburger cheese stinks the way it does. Yep, you read that right! Limburger cheese.

Turns out the bacteria 'Brevibacterium linens' is responsible for the notorious smell of Linburger cheese, and it is this same bacteria which make our feet stink sometimes. Researchers found, in 1996, that the mosquitoes known for carrying Malaria were particularly attracted to Linburger cheese, and likewise to people's feet.

Who knew??!!

There's a toe cheese joke in there somewhere.

a reply to: DAVID64

Mmmmmm, Linberger......tween our toes,..

So moral of the story is if you don't want
To contract malaria wash your
Feet often!

You might be able to are use the word often out over your sentence.a reply to: VividestSum93

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Funny, I've always called really smelling French cheese, "Stinky feet cheese"

a reply to: VividestSum93

Or take a piece of Limburger cheese with you when you visit an area containing malaria mosquitoes and put it out for them to get confused on.

I wonder if they tested fumunda cheese?

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

So I wonder is this is tied to the 'Limburger' baby?

originally posted by: apydomis
You might be able to are use the word often out over your sentence.a reply to: VividestSum93

Thats easy for you to say.

But, my feet do not smell like Limburger cheese, they smell like Asiago cheese.

I am safe if I go into malaria infested areas I guess. As long as I don't eat anything with Limburger in it.

Ha! I wonder if that's where the Brit saying "cheesy feet" came from.....or perhaps the Brits knew something all olong

Rainbows
Jane

I wonder if there are hipster mosquitoes, that only crave artisanal Limburger cheeses?

It sounds as though footwear could actually reduce malarial infection. Such a simple thing...