What Happens to Your Body When a Mosquito Bites You

Mosquitoes spit on your skin to relieve pain. 3


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A mosquito’s saliva has an agent that numbs the skin. So after an insect spits on us, we don’t feel the bite. After that our little buzzy friends start looking for blood vessels under the skin. They probe a number of times until they find something to feed on.

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