Re:New Model Warns About Crispr Gene Drives in the Wild
by thriftwy on Friday December 15, 2017 @11:13AM
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Well, roughly half of land is arid and has no mosquitoes to speak of. And you know, animals and humans get by without those vaccinations.
Re:New Model Warns About Crispr Gene Drives in the Wild
by Balgair on Friday December 15, 2017 @02:11PM
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What? I'm not understanding your reasoning here.
The issue is not about land area, it's about fauna biomass location. Think more like this:
https://static6.businessinsider.com/image/582c7dd8ba6eb69a01...
On the vaccination issue, I encourage you to look up Jenner and his realization of the link between cowpox and smallpox. It's a good foundation for GP's idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Jenner#Invention_of_the...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1200696/
I'm not certain of mosquito-per-fauna-biomass distributions, nor GP's thesis, but it's not a bad one overall and may have merit.
Re:New Model Warns About Crispr Gene Drives in the Wild
by thriftwy on Friday December 15, 2017 @02:34PM
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If arid land can do well without mosquitoes, perhaps wetter land can do too. Have more flies for example.
If people in arid land can live healthy without mosquitoes, I think it's a good bet that people in wetter land can too.
But eradicating mosquitoes is a bad idea. My hunch is that in most cases, they act as genetic pollinators, incremental vaccinators carrying the latest news of disease so that animals can react.