Submitted by lughnasadh t3_yortnc in Futurology
Reply to comment by SrslyCmmon in English company Oxitec has released a simple, easy to distribute commercial product they say cuts Dengue Fever spreading mosquito populations by 96%. By just adding water, genetically modified mosquito eggs mature into males whose sperm cannot result in viable female larvae. by lughnasadh
If we could eradicate the disease reservoir for mosquito-borne diseases that would be ideal - I think people could live with mozzies if they knew they weren’t going to get malaria/schistosomiasis/dengue/Zika/West Nile/Japanese encephalitis etc. Then again there are so many animal diseases that they spread and maintain the existence of as well…
Nah FUCK those bitches, unless they're zapping me with improve mental health juice instead of itchy juice I want them all dead.
There was an article saying how they used mosquitoes to transmit a malaria vaccine recently.
Maybe they could do mosquito abatement and release these from non treated water so there wouldn’t be a really heavy mosquito season. That and there would be fewer bad mosquitoes to mate with making the process more effective.
The only good mosquito is a dead mosquito. I don't care it would damage the biosphere or whatever - they hurt. And they love me.
Kill. Them. All.
Similarly, I don't care about you. You can't just purposefully destroy a species, that's horrific.
When it comes to mosquitos, If I can, I would lol.
I'd also strongly recommend you ask whether you should, before worrying about being itchy. Taking something out of the food chain can have unintended consequences. They're tiny but you'd be amazed how much of their biomass supports birds and fish. The world is already unbalanced enough without taking things out of the house of cards willy nilly.
I think i've read it may be possible to just remove the highest offending species, but it still needs to be closely monitored.
Oh, it absolutely would have consequences, yes. I don't care.
We already drove numerous species to extinction (no, seriously, we are an extinction event called the Holocene extinction, we killed 30% of all species in 500 years), at least this time it would be for an excellent reason.
Well thankfully more sensible types will be making that decision 🙏
Especially when we don't know the consequences of eradicating the species.
We would lose our galactic status as a protected wild life reserve.
Humans are the disease reservoir for some of these.
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