Kite Mosquito Patch

The Kite Mosquito Patch is a concept of a product of small patch that is worn on a person's clothing and protects the wearer against mosquito bites.^[1] The Kite Patch disperses non-toxic compounds that block mosquitoes' ability to track and detect humans. Developers of the patch have reported that the wearer effectively becomes "invisible to mosquitoes",^[2] and is protected for up to 48 hours at a time. The company has the goal that the Kite Patch to be market-ready in 2017. http://www.kitepatch.com/kite-patch

The initial discovery of the compounds used in Kite Patch was led by scientist Dr. Anandasankar Ray and his team from the University of California, Riverside, with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation^[3] and the National Institutes of Health.^[4] Their findings were published in the Nature journal in 2011.^[5] The Kite Patch could help protect against malaria, as well as West Nile virus, dengue fever, and other mosquito-borne diseases.^[6]

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