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Iceland reports the presence of mosquitoes as climate warms

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120 points sans_souse | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 22:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.302s | source
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Findecanor ◴[22 Oct 25 23:37 UTC] No.45676521[source]▶
When I was a kid in the 1980's I had a classmate from Iceland who was very smug about them not having mosquitoes there.

The Nordic varieties of mosquito are not known to carry any diseases, but the sting itches. Authorities in these countries sometimes poison wetlands where mosquito populations would otherwise grow large enough to become a public nuisance in summer.

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junon ◴[23 Oct 25 00:14 UTC] No.45676768[source]▶
Curious, aside from people who are immune or whatever, does any type of mosquito bite not itch?
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1. JumpCrisscross ◴[23 Oct 25 02:48 UTC] No.45677659[source]▶
> does any type of mosquito bite not itch?

Apparently they don’t once your immune system gets used to them. But this usually takes lots of exposure when young.