sniper 55 wrote:Modern tonic doesn't have quinine in it.
Schweppes disagree with you there, however it doesn't have enough in it to treat malaria, that's a good thing really, enough quinine to treat malaria has some pretty nasty side effects.
The mossies don't care anyway, they don't know they're carrying malaria (in the UK they're obviously unlikely to be carrying it,) and they'll still bite you.
I don't react too badly to mossie bites as it goes, but I find that a good bit of deet, reapplied often stops them from biting too much, and if I'm static then I light up a mossie coil and that helps to keep them at bay, works ok for those swarms of Scottish midges too, but doesn't do much for horseflies, if there's one creature that I would say doesn't deserve a place on earth it would be those!
Loads of people swear by the Avon stuff, I'm going to give it a go when I run out of deet, it can't smell any worse!
They mostly get me when I'm shooting pigeons from a hide, so covering up helps with those and with camouflage.
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