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The gamble: can genetically-modified mosquitoes end disease? (www.irishtimes.com)

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The gene engineering technology they are using could, in just a few generations – a matter of months when it comes to mosquitoes – make every member of the species that transmits malaria here, the Anopheles coluzzii, effectively immune to the parasite.

We need a Final Solution to the mosquito question, not this hogwash

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