NYTimes.com: The Gamble: Can Genetically Modified Mosquitoes End Disease?

[John Clark]

Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription.

The Gamble: Can Genetically Modified Mosquitoes End Disease?

Working on a remote island, scientists think they can use genetic engineering to block a malaria-carrying species of mosquito from spreading the disease — and do it in just a few months. But governments are wary.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/health/mosquitoes-genetic-engineering.html?unlocked_article_code=DhxxgQuXR7jQhno8fK3KDzKmVCyFp-N3U5hyjRfh4zd4aJ461ASu9R-KogDLwl1p3GRsqFNW255eL8A4F0TfpRuy5yJUQmfxgn9lob7-wMknVomN8OCfCKBazSaoZP-OSHcshaKZYJ7fx3uyUk9axZvggs3YkUhNtFSj2XjXmo2KY1RU2ncHbjMfnX0a3RHowyiPpTTbkwxGM98Dsri7vPGzPZLqjB69qrugRqcnGv63KUvPvf3hBhHZo-phY6qTHVBrH9NZoKeVup4q6YWoBoUrhOV9dz7q2_W82i0oVKtik1ZuquCQWjzs-JpRIZiOWxePIQMb07pkAc9dwEPq09CYjaRJ0Zk&smid=em-share

[Samiya Illias]

Malaria is a disease that breeds in humans. This disease has been around for thousands of years. Mosquitoes are only the vectors (couriers / postal service). Even if the mosquitoes are modified, the disease will probably find another way of transferring from one human to another. Tinkering with nature may result in unexpected consequences. 

On 30-Sep-2023, at 7:31 PM, John Clark <johnk...@gmail.com> wrote:



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[John Clark]

On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 3:05 PM Samiya Illias <samiya...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Malaria is a disease that breeds in humans. This disease has been around for thousands of years. Mosquitoes are only the vectors (couriers / postal service).

Only! Besides that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play? 

> Even if the mosquitoes are modified, the disease will probably find another way of transferring from one human to another. 

If so then let's bring back the hordes of rats like they had during the middle ages because rats were just the vectors for fleas, which were just the vectors for the bacteria that caused the bubonic plague which killed about a third of the people in Europe.  

> Tinkering with nature may result in unexpected consequences.

Maybe, but NOT tinkering with nature will lead to very expected consequences and they are not pretty, 100 people dying of malaria EVERY HOUR, and three or four times that number getting very sick. Every hour that environmentalists delay the release of those genetically modified mosquitoes they kill 100 people, and they do so in the name of morality. If that's moral then I'm immoral and proud of it.

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