This is a rather vague question, since you can look at it a bunch of different ways. If someone asks me if I'd rather get bit by a mosquito or a crocodile, I'm going with the mosquito. Even if I'm in the tropics, where mosquitoes can carry malaria and other serious diseases, I'd rather be bitten by the mosquito. read more
The simplest thing to do about the itch of mosquito bites is to rub some antihistamine cream on the bite. The itch arises from an inflammatory reaction by your body to an anti-clotting substance in the mosquito salivary gland fluid. This fluid prevents the mosquitoes proboscis from getting stuck. read more