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Re:Rage Disorder Linked with Toxoplasmosis (2016) by rsync on Monday October 02, 2017 @10:33AM (#15384075)
This is why I am skeptical/cautious about the "let's just kill all the mosquitos" plans I see floated ...

Even if it's true that mosquitos can be removed from the foodchain with no negative effects ... are we so sure that wherever malaria goes (and I think it will go somewhere) won't be worse than mosquitos ?

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Re:Rage Disorder Linked with Toxoplasmosis (2016) by yaacov on Monday October 02, 2017 @10:38AM (#15384114)
If malaria had some other way to spread it wouldn't wait until mosquitos were wiped out to use it. It's not like the parasite is intelligent or anything.
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Re:Rage Disorder Linked with Toxoplasmosis (2016) by _jal on Monday October 02, 2017 @12:04PM (#15384928)
I don't worry about malaria per se; as another poster noted, if it had a different vector, we'd see it already.

I do worry about removing critters from the food chain; we've seen plenty of second- and third-order surprises from that. What do the things that eat mosquitos find next-most-tasty, for starters?

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