yellow fever

Dubstep is now scientifically-proven to kill the mood for love - for mosquitos anyway. In a recent study, scientists played music by dubstep star Skrillex to yellow fever mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti) to investigate the effects. The genre’s mixture of very high and very low frequencies proved to help put the insects off their game and off their taste for blood.

Nearly a billion people are at risk from the disease in Africa and Latin America.