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Re:Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite by duskwuff on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @05:09PM (#42260301)
The sheer amount of human and animal* suffering caused by mosquito-borne diseases speaks strongly in favor of mosquito eradication. Over half a million people died of malaria in 2022 alone, over three quarters of them children - even if there are ecological risks, they need to be weighed against allowing that suffering to continue.

*: e.g. heartworm in dogs

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Re:Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite by dietr1ch on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @05:56PM (#42260644)
It's crazy that eradicating missiles would do way better. It could even fund vaccination against mosquito-borne diseases without /figuring/ around and finding out if the chain reaction started by killing all the mosquitoes has big consequences or not.
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Re:Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite by waveBidder on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @06:47PM (#42260995)
why are you bringing this up? It's irrelevant to the topic at hand
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Re:Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite by dietr1ch on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @08:10PM (#42261416)
I agree it's sort of unrelated, but I think that people are getting nerd-snipped into thinking/discussing about a complicated improvement while there's easier ones right in front of us and it's kind of sad that while easy on theory, everyone seems already defeated by our apparent inability to do something about it.
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Re:Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite by smegger001 on Thursday November 28, 2024 @02:31AM (#42263279)
only Malaria has killed far more people than missiles you brought up. According to estimates published in Nature, over 50 billion people have suffered from Malaria over the course of human history. (Whitfield, J. Portrait of a serial killer. Nature 2002) that nearly half of humanity lost to a single disease.

and unfortunately we are in warming planet where Malaria's host vector range is going to increase as temperatures continue to rise, destroying Malaria is one of the greatest possible morale goods we could pursue.

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Re:Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite by dietr1ch on Thursday November 28, 2024 @07:56AM (#42264903)
> over 50 billion people have suffered from Malaria over the course of human history.

Those are long dead already, aren't they? I guess the right question to be asked when thinking about taking action is which one is going to kill more in the near future.

> unfortunately we are in warming planet where Malaria's host vector range is going to increase as temperatures continue to rise.

This is a fair point and should be accounted when thinking about the impact on malaria

> Destroying Malaria is one of the greatest possible morale goods we could pursue

It's great for sure, maybe among the greatest ones around health, but I don't think it'd go over peace.

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Re:Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite by ashoeafoot on Thursday November 28, 2024 @02:28AM (#42263264)
its his/her job?
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