I like to paste this awesome response from reddit whenever someone doubts these approaches (since I couldn’t put it better myself) > Malaria is only carried by

I like to paste this awesome response from reddit whenever someone doubts these approaches (since I couldn’t put it better myself) > Malaria is only carried by a tiny number of mosquito species. Of the thousands of species only something like a dozen actually matter to humans. We can target exactly the ones we want and even better : nothing stops us from maintaining a population in some labs somewhere. If it turns out they matter in any significant way, contrary to various impact analysis... we just release them back into the environment. > The current cost of not wiping out those few mosquito species is about half a million dead children. Imagine that someone was nuking a mid sized American city every year and you could stop it right now but you'd prefer to wait for a slightly more athsteticly pleasing solution. > How much blood would you be willing to let stain your soul . https://pay.reddit.com/r/biology/comments/9ivkka/genetic_modification_of_mosquitoes_could_provide/e6n1t0v/ https://pay.reddit.com/r/biology/comments/9ivkka/genetic_mod...