DOH stands for D'oh

Just watched this on the news tonight. A Department of Health or city official was being interviewed on the dengue outbreak in Valenzuela City and I caught the tail end of the interview as I was switching channels. I'll assume he was being asked on what the citizens of Valenzuela could do to prevent being bitten by dengue-carrying mosquitoes.

Nameless DOH/City Gov't Guy: "...mag-pahid na lang ng skin repellant sa mga kapwa." (Just rub skin repellant on your neighbors/fellow man)

Which actually sounds pretty painful as prevention goes. How does repelling your skin make you less attractive to mosquitoes? Who, in the first place, would want to repel skin? And why do I have to rub it on other people? Wouldn't they hate me afterwards, when all their skin falls off?