With the Zika virus in the news, some people have wondered why we don’t just kill them ALL.
Sources:
History of War against Mosquitoes/DDT
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/10072…
http://www.panna.org/resources/ddt-story
http://www.scientificamerican.com/art…
Ecological Impacts
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/10072…
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.or…
http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/poll…
Zika Mosquito
http://www.cdc.gov/zika/transmission/…
http://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?opti…
RNA Molecular Pesticide (killing)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18…
Transgenic Male Mosquitoes — self-limiting gene, kills offspring (killing)
http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/art…
http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/art…
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sci…
http://www.oxitec.com/faqs/
Transgenic Mosquitoes — gene drive, Anopheles (resistance to parasite)
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/49/E6736
http://www.latimes.com/science/scienc…
http://www.nature.com/news/gene-drive…
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/1…
Wolbachia — bacteria infection, Aedes (resistance to virus)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/art…
http://www.eliminatedengue.com/our-re…
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23…
Wolbachia Parasite Superinfection — preventing potential viral resistancehttp://www.eurekalert.org/emb_release…
https://www.plos.org/wp-content/uploa..
