It doesn't really take that many people; these need not be expensive programs. It's a matter of political will, but a serious vector control program would be no

It doesn't really take that many people; these need not be expensive programs. It's a matter of political will, but a serious vector control program would be no different. In any event, learning how to control human diseases and prevent parasites from killing us seems like a very fundamental goal of medicine which should be accomplished in any eventuality. Eradicating mosquitoes need not be. Also, regarding resistance, it is much easier to track and defeat resistance in human patients than to track and defeat resistance in wild populations of mosquitoes, which is what we'll be doing if we try eradication campaigns.