Pharmacy Daily | DISPENSARY CORNER 12 May 16

COULD the secret to true love be hiding in a sweaty armpit? The organisers of the word’s first armpit sniffing dating event in London seem to think so. Similar to the principles of the postal Smell Dating service (PD 30 Mar), participants pop a paper bag over their heads for anonymity before sniffing the body odour of potential partners. Score cards are then used to rate your people’s smells. The event is based off the idea that pheromones have a strong impact on who you’re sexually attracted to. Singles were so hyped about the event that the £10 tickets sold out within two hours. If any love blooms from the pungent event, we’ll let you know. HERE'S an innovative way to help ease the threat of Zika virus - a free app that updates where hordes of mosquitos are hanging out in real time. ZanzaMapp uses information from the public to highlight mozzie hot spots which are then colour coded by density on a map. Concerned users can then choose to avoid areas which show up with heavy concentrations of the blood suckers. The Italian developer behind the app said managing the risk of Zika was a key reason behind his creation. “I realised there’s little practical information on how to manage the presence of mosquitoes,” he told the BBC.

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