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Giving this to livestock would also be pretty deadly to mosquitoes. Using cows and pigs to fight malaria is not a half-bad idea.
by beloch 10y ago
Giving this to livestock would also be pretty deadly to mosquitoes. Using cows and pigs to fight malaria is not a half-bad idea.
- jfoster 10y agoWhat if the effect of this approach is not eradication of mosquitoes but evolution, though? Mosquitos evolving to avoid livestock would need to compensate by feeding more somewhere else. That somewhere might be humans.
- mvid 10y agoOr they might just die. Evolution doesn't give guarantees.
- Sniffnoy 10y agoDeadly to mosquitoes, but depending on where you are, it could be a lot less deadly to malaria mosquitoes. Just going by Wikipedia[0] here: > One important behavioral factor is the degree to which an Anopheles species prefers to feed on humans (anthropophily) or animals such as cattle or birds. Anthropophilic Anopheles are more likely to transmit the malaria parasites from one person to another. Most Anopheles mosquitoes are not exclusively anthropophilic or zoophilic. However, the primary malaria vectors in Africa, A. gambiae and A. funestus, are strongly anthropophilic and, consequently, are two of the most efficient malaria vectors in the world. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anopheles#Preferred_sources_for_blood_meals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anopheles#Preferred_sources_fo...