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Genetic hacking - a brilliant solution said:American scientist Anthony James, from UC Irvine, has made mosquito genetics the focus of his career - and his latest invention is a genetically modified mosquito designed to bring populations of Aedes aegypti down from within.
In short, the modified genes affect only the female mosquitoes, rendering them flightless. The larvae hatch on the water, and the females are unable to leave, rendering them harmless to humans and leaving them to die. The males are unaffected, so they mature normally, then mate with other females to pass the genetic modification on.
It's an extremely effective way of triggering a mosquito population crash - James and his colleagues have proven in cage-based testing in Mexico that a sufficient number of genetically hacked males can completely decimate a mosquito population within a few months. The table below shows this genetic genocide in action - within 23 and 33 weeks, the genetically modified males managed to completely destroy the otherwise stable mosquito population in James' test cages.
Yes. It's just unreal what they have been doing. Trying to wipe out the mosquito population is insane. They are the best pollinators on the planet.
They also say it can be transmitted by humans during sex.
They also say it can be transmitted by humans during sex.
I think that can be contained more readily, just like people who find out they have HIV or AIDS
can manage not to infect others.
But trying to control mosquito populations from 'biting a Zika carrier and then biting someone else' sounds much more difficult to manage without killing off that "
Aedes aegypti" mosquito in that region altogether.
I don't think you have to kill of people to stop them from spreading diseases to each other.
But this mosquito may need to be, for now (but in a way it could be brought back later?).
What are you going to do, isolate all the people carrying Zika so no mosquito can bite them and bite someone else? How can you contain that?
At least until something can kill off the Zika virus inside the human body so that person no longer carries or spreads it.
They also say it can be transmitted by humans during sex.
I think that can be contained more readily, just like people who find out they have HIV or AIDS
can manage not to infect others.
But trying to control mosquito populations from 'biting a Zika carrier and then biting someone else' sounds much more difficult to manage without killing off that "
Aedes aegypti" mosquito in that region altogether.
I don't think you have to kill of people to stop them from spreading diseases to each other.
But this mosquito may need to be, for now (but in a way it could be brought back later?).
What are you going to do, isolate all the people carrying Zika so no mosquito can bite them and bite someone else? How can you contain that?
At least until something can kill off the Zika virus inside the human body so that person no longer carries or spreads it.
Why is it you regressives tend to go to the absurd more than anyone else. Exactly where did I even remotely mention isolating anyone? Also in a healthy adult the body will take care of the virus, but there is a period of time that it can be transmitted person to person. Any person who knows they have the virus should only engage in safe sex until the danger has passed. Zika has been linked to birth defects.