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Here's a really comprehensive overview of Microsporidia -- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5613672/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5

Here's a really comprehensive overview of Microsporidia -- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5613672/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5613672/ Still working through this and the original paper, but while it can cause encephalitis in humans, it seems to be ubiquitous already anyway, and we don't seem to typically get it from insects. Setting aside the fact that you could swap malaria for almost any other infectious disease and humanity would be massively better off. (Caveat: IANA Microbiologist and welcome corrections.)

Endlessly 6y ago
“IANA” being “I am not a” - commonly expressed as IANAL (I am not a lawyer).
bdamm 6y ago
If it is ubiquitous anyway then why isn't it blocking malaria in the wild?
- brownbat 6y ago
  I should have said "not uncommon" rather than "ubiquitous," but it appears it already is blocking malaria development in a small portion of mosquitoes. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16121-y https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16121-y