Re:Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)
by the_af on Friday May 29, 2020 @05:14PM
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> You seem to be strangely unaware of the large amount of money which has been spent for decades on mosquito control by individuals and all levels of government.
Which government are you talking about? I don't live in the US and you linked to EPA and Yale. I can tell you my government is doing very little to combat dengue fever, and when they do, it's too little, too late.
> widespread control campaigns [...] community awareness
There's very little of that. And one careless neighbor effectively endangers the whole apartment block.
You seem to be strangely unaware of the large amount of money which has been spent for decades on mosquito control by individuals and all levels of government. There are widespread control campaigns, active research into developing new weapons (e.g. traps which are effective against tiger mosquitoes), and community awareness to get more people involved with habitat control and using things like bed nets.
I mean, does this sound like not doing something?
https://www.epa.gov/mosquitocontrol/success-mosquito-control...
Several companies have been working for years on genetic modifications to disrupt mosquito spread:
https://e360.yale.edu/features/genetically_modified_mosquito...