Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes

Re:Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes by x1798DE on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @03:01PM (#11536845)

But the ongoing cost of eliminating cars would be enormous. The ancestor post is saying that there would be only fixed costs involved in eliminating malaria-transmitting species of mosquito.

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Re:Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes by ommunist on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @03:09PM (#11536903)

What really ailes me is that all research is concentrated on killing poor mosquitoes, not the Plasmodium, which is the real cause of the disease. Should we also kill all the cats because they carry Toxoplasmae?

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Re:Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes by Qwertious on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @09:16PM (#11538986)

If it's a matter of animal rights, cats have a hell of a lot more higher-order brain-functioning than mosquitoes do, because the latter have effectively zero.

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Re:Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes by tropo on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @08:08PM (#11538719)

Given the that Toxoplasmae causes detrimental brain effects in humans, yes. Absolutely 100% unquestionably yes, without a doubt.

We could keep a few cats isolated behind glass in zoos. Isolated cats don't matter.

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Re:Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes by ommunist on Thursday April 21, 2016 @12:19AM (#11539669)

You understand! Lets apply for IMO grant for that.

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