Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)

Re:Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017) by asdfasgasdgasdg on Friday May 29, 2020 @04:14PM (#23354949)

For one thing, we could conceivably get rid of the mosquitoes if the problem to solve is making life better for humans. However, getting rid of humans to make life better for humans rather defeats the purpose.

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Re:Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017) by slg on Friday May 29, 2020 @06:04PM (#23356084)

Tuberculosis kills almost as many people as the rest of that list combined. It is spread from human to human. There is a vaccine that can help prevent it. If this list was intended to shine light on a fixable problem, TB seems like a much easier problem to solve than eradicating all mosquitoes.

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Re:Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017) by asdfasgasdgasdg on Sunday May 31, 2020 @12:34PM (#23370642)

There's a vaccine that helps prevent it in children, although apparently it's not very effective for adolescents and adults: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4950406/

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