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Oxitec has already tested its method with Anopheles mosquitoes, which spread malaria.
The report noted that in the future it may also be possible to alter genes in organisms that carry diseases, such as the mosquitoes that spread malaria.
The research may be relevant far beyond roach control, perhaps helping to explain the behavior of mosquitoes that spread malaria, Dr. Schal said.
The storm has mixed drinking water and sewage, posing a severe risk of diarrheal diseases, and flooding has left vast pools of standing water where mosquitoes can breed and spread malaria and dengue fever.
The minister of sport once described Croatian football as "a huge swamp of irresponsible behaviour in which there are lots of mosquitos that fly up in the air, suck blood and spread malaria".
This was the case in Obuasi, where the spraying of mines, surrounding buildings, homes and then entire districts have meant that there are simply fewer mosquitoes that can spread malaria.
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(In Europe, researchers recently gained a patent on the idea of genetically altering a mosquito so that it spreads malaria vaccine with every sting).
That is important in a region beset by mosquito-borne diseases (though not as devastated as sub-Saharan Africa, where Anopheles gambiae spreads malaria).
Americans forget that yellow fever was once endemic in the country and that mosquito species capable of spreading malaria are found as far north as Boston in summertime.
The vector concept, adapted from infectious disease control, is simple: liver disease and myriad other health and social problems are being spread by alcohol companies just as the mosquito vector spreads malaria.
A scientist capable of rewiring a mosquito to prevent it from spreading malaria, dengue, Zika, or any other infectious disease would almost certainly have the skill to turn that insect into a weapon.
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