A Mashable Choice Award is a badge of honor, reserved for the absolute best stuff we’ve tested and loved. My leg is itchy. Not all of it, just the now-healing spot where a mosquito bit me over ...

Shannon concludes that thiamine hydrochloride, when administered in the appropriate dosage, either orally or by injection, can reduce the risk of mosquito bites in three ways: by acting as a repellent ...

When a mosquito bites, its saliva acts like an anaesthetic, preventing you from feeling it. But it's only female mosquitoes that bite, and they do it because blood contains both nutrition for her ...