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What about releasing a genetically altered strain of the malaria organism itself?

• hsnewman 8y ago
  Maleria reproduces asexually, so I guess it wouldn't work.
  • danieltillett 8y ago
    Malaria reproduces both sexually and asexually depending on its lifecycle stage.
• maxerickson 8y ago
  Crashing the mosquito population greatly diminishes transmission of the disease. Because malaria mostly infects humans, if you managed to create a malaria that conferred immunity, you'd have to infect lots and lots of people with it to spread it into the wild, and then it would only infect a subset of the people with the normal malaria strain.
• gascan 8y ago
  Immune mosquitoes would be good too, though certainly more challenging to engineer than "kill everything".