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Why Don’t We Wipe Mosquitoes Off The Face Of The Earth?
Friday, February 5, 2016 23:50
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from The Conversation
– this post authored by Mike Jeffries, Northumbria University, Newcastle
A blood-sucking, disease-spreading, whining creature is always going to be a hard sell, even to nature lovers. And the dreaded mosquito is now the prime suspect behind the sudden arrival and explosive spread of Zika virus in Central and South America. Zika is transmitted by a mosquito vector Aedes aegypti, a pan-global tropical species already well known for spreading diseases such as yellow and dengue fever.
Source: http://econintersect.com/pages/contributors/contributor.php?post=201602060023
“Why Don’t We Wipe Mosquitoes Off The Face Of The Earth?”
People have been trying to do exactly that for as long as there have been people, even today. Unfortunately, mosquitoes are quite the resilient species.