The news media is in a big kerfuffle over reports of a new genetically modified mosquito that is resistant to malarial parasites and all the stronger than wild mosquitoes for it. Sounds perfect, right? Stronger mosquitoes resistant to disease would easily eclipse those weaklings who fall prey. Release enough of them into the wild and soon enough there'd be no more malaria.
Mosquitoes
Malaria and the Genetically Modified Mosquito
By Sonia Shah Tuesday March 20, 2007
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