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Re:US government approves 'killer' mosquitoes to fight disease by learc83 on Thursday November 09, 2017 @03:47PM (#15665751)
Why should we eradicate malaria? Or small pox? Surely they've had just as much impact on the world's ecosystem as mosquitoes.
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Re:US government approves 'killer' mosquitoes to fight disease by sametmax on Thursday November 09, 2017 @03:57PM (#15665821)
We don't eradicate them. We just prevent us from being sick, it's a local action. We are not actively mass killing it.

If you can't see the difference between defence and offence, local area of effect and genocide...

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Re:US government approves 'killer' mosquitoes to fight disease by learc83 on Thursday November 09, 2017 @03:59PM (#15665835)
>We are not actively killing it.

What do you think a person's immune system does to smallpox when they have been inoculated against smallpox and they are exposed to it?

We're not actively killing mosquitoes just preventing them from breeding.

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