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thatguy0900 on Aug 23, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mosquito saliva alone has profound effects on the ...

He's giving an anecdote. Mosquitos would land on a native man but not bite him. Some mosquitos bit him(timonoko) but he had DEET on so not many did. An Italian couple got very badly bitten and spent the trip trying to slap and genocide all of the mosquitos.

ask_b123 on Aug 25, 2021 [–]

Ha. That's what I thought but the comment's dead status swayed my outlook and made me search for another meaning :O

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