pregnant women have twice as much. they like alcohol. if you are drinking a ber, you are more likely to attract mosquitoes. if you are drunk, you might not realize it until afterwards. they are attracted to smelly feet and smells of all kinds. colors dark blue, red. watch what you are wearing. dark blue, red and black attract mosquitoes. and certain people genetically are more attractive and type-o blood is twice as likely to attract mosquitoings as type-a. o-mosquitoes. are you type o ? caller: i am. noose one reason. and mosquitoes are smart. they go after smell. you may have the perfume. they get attracted. and the colors. you like to wear light colors, pink and red. so be careful with that. some of the things that we use deet sprays, they take
rick? reporter: all right, no one likes getting mosquito bites of course, jon. if you happen to have a run inn with a mosquito carrying west nile virus you re considering something much worse than a itching bump on your skin. smithsonian magazine started out to find who is the most attractive people are to the bugs and why. they like beer drinkers. maybe something to do with the alcohol secreted in our sweat when we drink beer or maybe the mosquitoes like beer, whatever. smithsonian magazine says the beer consumption doesn t make you more likely to get bitten but here is what does. if you have type-o blood, you re twice as likely to get bitten than someone with type-a like you jon. if you have a high body temp. you re a likely mosquito target. if you re big they re coming for you. and if you re pregnant, you re device as likely as someone who
hospitals. yeah, word is that the hospitals have called in extra personnel. they re all stacked up. there are three hospitals in the reno area. we re hearing that they re asking for blood donors right now. type o blood is what they re looking for right now. but no doubt this is an unprecedented incident that will go down in history here in northern nevada. the regional hospital that s are involved here that we know of, northern nevada medical center in sparks, nevada, renoun health center and st. mary s regional medical receiving patients from the airfield northern nevada medical center received nine patients, renoun 22. that is the health center confirming two spectator fatalities in addition to the pilot fatality. we do not yet have a patient count from st. mary s regional. i do not know if there is a count at this point. andrew, in terms of the way that this has unfolded on the ground, there are some reports that in