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The gamble: can genetically-modified mosquitoes end disease? (www.irishtimes.com)
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The gene engineering technology they are using could, in just a few generations – a matter of months when it comes to mosquitoes – make every member of the species that transmits malaria here, the Anopheles coluzzii, effectively immune to the parasite.

We need a Final Solution to the mosquito question, not this hogwash

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There are only twelve mosquito variants (out of 200) that bite and spread disease. The genetic modifications would only target these.

https://www.cdc.gov/mosquitoes/about/mosquitoes-in-the-us.html

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That was what I was referring to