Re:Mosquitoes Genetically Modified to Crash Species That Spr...
by maxerickson on Monday September 24, 2018 @05:37PM
(#18061679)
Crashing the mosquito population greatly diminishes transmission of the disease.
Because malaria mostly infects humans, if you managed to create a malaria that conferred immunity, you'd have to infect lots and lots of people with it to spread it into the wild, and then it would only infect a subset of the people with the normal malaria strain.
Because malaria mostly infects humans, if you managed to create a malaria that conferred immunity, you'd have to infect lots and lots of people with it to spread it into the wild, and then it would only infect a subset of the people with the normal malaria strain.