Teaching Mosquitoes To Stay Away

Plus: Child Rapes In Pakistan; Cancer 5-Year Survival Rates editor's note I'm one of those people. Are you? The kind of people that mosquitoes find irresistible. If I'm sitting on the front porch on a summer night next to my wife, the skeeters dig into me and leave her alone. And since mosquitoes can spread all kinds of diseases around the world -- Zika, malaria, dengue -- keeping them at bay is a good thing. Now a scientist has come up with a way to teach mosquitoes to hate your odor so they leave you alone. ["Swat them!" he exclaims.]( Why does that work so well? Correspondent Michaeleen Doucleff interviewed him for Goats and Soda to learn more. I can't wait to test his theory this summer. Marc Silver Editor, Goats and Soda in the news [A 13th Child Is Raped And Murdered -- And A Pakistani City Is Up In Arms]( The rape and murder of 7-year-old Zainab Amin caused a political crisis. Correspondent Diaa Hadid spoke to the parents of the girl and has taken some really powerful photos to go with her story. [What's The 5-Year-Survival Rate For Cancer Patients Around The World?]( A new study looks at patient records for a variety of cancers from 71 countries. There is encouraging news -- and discouraging news, especially about childhood cancers in the developing world. [Africa Is Suffering A Silent Crisis Of Stroke]( The largest-ever study of stroke patients in Africa reveals a high rate of a particularly risky type of brain incident. What's the problem? And what's the solution? refugees [Rare Disease Finds Fertile Ground In Rohingya Camps]( Diphtheria is not seen in the West because almost everyone is vaccinated against it. But it's been infecting thousands of the refugees in Bangladesh. quote of the week ["I never even thought it was going to be that popular."]( - Liibaan Jama, born in Somalia and now living in Minnesota, who produced the viral video "Barbar," starring a Somali comic, that has brought in millions of pageviews and inspired many tributes, including from the U.S. Embassy in Djibouti. test your musical knowledge [Can You Tell A Lullaby From A Dance Song?]( To see if music really is a universal language, researchers gave people 14-second samples of songs from around the world and asked them to guess what kind of song it is. We've got four samples for you to test your musical I.Q. in pictures [Shaking Up The Idea Of What Africa Looks Like]( The 11th African Biennale of Photography invites artists to show their personal vision of the continent -- its problems and its promise. [Twitter]( [Tumblr]( NPR | 1111 N. Capitol St. NE | Washington, DC 20002 | [Privacy Policy]( This message was sent to {EMAIL} based on your NPR email subscriptions. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you may [unsubscribe]( at any time. [NPR](