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6. Mosquito bite victim

Helge Zieler has a job that really bites – no, literally. Working in the Brazilian rainforest, Zieler offers himself as bait to study mosquito behaviour.

Despite once suffering a debilitating bout of malaria, he says: “The beauty of the rainforest far outweighs the thousands of mosquito bites.”

 

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