[Ayame]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')ASHINGTON — Researchers have developed a malaria-resistant mosquito, a step that might one day help block the spread of an illness that has claimed millions of lives around the world. When they fed on malaria-infected mice, the resistant mosquitoes had a higher survival rate than non-resistant ones, meaning they could eventually replace the ones that can carry the disease, according to a report in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 700,000 to 2.7 million people die of malaria each year, 75% of them African children.
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[TheDude]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayame', 'W')ill humans never learn that trying to circumvent mother nature's population control measures is just futile? Mother nature will just turn to her other henchmen: war and famine.

Or am I just a sociopath like Jack?

[jboogy]

This is insane , good chance that down the road we'll be reading about how some of the mutant skeeters that were MORE dangerous had somehow escaped and all of us need to be vaccinated for malaria. They shouldn't be playing around with that crap / "some of the worst things imaginable have been done with the best of intentions"- some guy in some movie I can't remember.

[Ayame]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheDude', '
')You forgot to make this a poll.

[PrairieMule]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jboogy', 'T')his is insane , good chance that down the road we'll be reading about how some of the mutant skeeters that were MORE dangerous had somehow escaped and all of us need to be vaccinated for malaria. They shouldn't be playing around with that crap / "some of the worst things imaginable have been done with the best of intentions"- some guy in some movie I can't remember.

[gg3]

I would be more enthusiastic about this if the modified skeeters injected their prey with an effective contraceptive that suppressed both male and female (human) reproduction.

Now *that* would be a wonderful thing.