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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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Modern humans use bug repellant. How did early humans deal with biting bugs in nature?
gpt
Truly ancient humans used mud, the Greeks and Romans used scented oils with herbs that smelled decent and repelled bugs, other than that they just got bit and got on with their lives. Bug bites and the resulting diseases (malaria, the black plague) were major causes of death.