Software can't kill mosquitoes

The only problem is that the software, for mobile phones, does not work and gives users a headache if the run it in their bedrooms over night.

More than 1,000 punters downloaded the software, which is free but requires you to give away a fair bit of personal data in an survey.

The software has its supporters who claim it works for them. But in a nation that grinds up and snorts monkey testicles under the guise of "traditional" medicine this could be a psychosomatic reaction.

Xu Renquan from the Shanghai Municipal Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said it tried similar experiments but it didn't work.

Some mosquitoes are put off by sound but others seem to have tiny Ipods over their ears when they are hunting for blood and can't hear a sausage.

Mosquito coils or spray was a much more sensible approach, Renquan said.

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