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This is why I am skeptical/cautious about the "let's just kill all the mosquitos" plans I see floated ... Even if it's true that mosquitos can be removed from
by rsync 9y ago
This is why I am skeptical/cautious about the "let's just kill all the mosquitos" plans I see floated ...
Even if it's true that mosquitos can be removed from the foodchain with no negative effects ... are we so sure that wherever malaria goes (and I think it will go somewhere) won't be worse than mosquitos ?
- yaacov 9y agoIf malaria had some other way to spread it wouldn't wait until mosquitos were wiped out to use it. It's not like the parasite is intelligent or anything.
- _jal 9y agoI don't worry about malaria per se; as another poster noted, if it had a different vector, we'd see it already. I do worry about removing critters from the food chain; we've seen plenty of second- and third-order surprises from that. What do the things that eat mosquitos find next-most-tasty, for starters?