Should we deploy the technology to eradicate them once and for all?
Link: https://washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/06/03/mosquito-extinction-gene-editing-malaria/
Half of all humans that have ever existed died from mosquito born illnesses.
Replies to: "Half of all humans that have ever existed died from mosquito born illnesses."
- Half of all humans that have ever existed died from mosquito born illnesses. [LINK]
- iairishcheeks - 10:07pm 6/4/25
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- Aedes Agytpi is an invasive species - Chris94 - 1:32am 6/5/25
- No.Mosquitos are a massive part of the food chain for many species as well as population control for - BaronVonZemo - 7:40am 6/5/25
- Yes. That mosquito was imported from the Old World. - Chris94 - 8:11am 6/5/25
- I gather “population control” is how you justify the thousands of dead children from cutting USAID. [NT]
- conorlarkin - 7:47am 6/5/25
- I was thinking rodents, etc. Can't separate politics from anything, can you? TDS...... - BaronVonZemo - 7:50am 6/5/25
- No.Mosquitos are a massive part of the food chain for many species as well as population control for - BaronVonZemo - 7:40am 6/5/25
- What could possibly go wrong? - MAS - 10:23pm 6/4/25
- The reason we don't have Malaria and Yellow Fever here is DDT. - iairishcheeks - 10:41pm 6/4/25
- Dr Craig (my professor) from ND did the greatest work in this field -defined life cycle of Aedes [LINK]
- BaronVonZemo - 10:55pm 6/4/25
- Here is an ND Mag article on Dr Craig [NT]
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- BaronVonZemo - 10:57pm 6/4/25
- And a NYT obituary article (to give you an idea of his impact as an entomologist) [NT]
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- BaronVonZemo - 10:58pm 6/4/25
- So we only have to eradicate a few species of mosquito, I say do it. - iairishcheeks - 11:18pm 6/4/25
- And a NYT obituary article (to give you an idea of his impact as an entomologist) [NT]
[LINK]
- BaronVonZemo - 10:58pm 6/4/25
- Here is an ND Mag article on Dr Craig [NT]
[LINK]
- BaronVonZemo - 10:57pm 6/4/25
- Dr Craig (my professor) from ND did the greatest work in this field -defined life cycle of Aedes [LINK]
- BaronVonZemo - 10:55pm 6/4/25
- No kidding. Reminds me of the Star Trek: The Mark of Gideon episode. [NT] [IMAGE] - BaronVonZemo - 10:37pm 6/4/25
- The reason we don't have Malaria and Yellow Fever here is DDT. - iairishcheeks - 10:41pm 6/4/25
- Aedes Agytpi is an invasive species - Chris94 - 1:32am 6/5/25