>Could work, still there is the danger of unforeseeable equilibrium changes, the parasite could eg invade other species not present in its natural >habitat.
If you squash one beast, this may had a mutation to make it resistant to a toxin. Or one of it's childs. Or the child of it's children.
Simply evolution.
A genocide is when you kill all the mosqiutoes, not just the human-eating. I don't say that the others would not bite humans, but they just don't have an affinity to the human pherormone annoying ones have. If they had nothing else to eat, they would bite humans. And that may be OK.
2012/6/4 Matthias Bock <mail@matthiasbock.net>
Yes, unfortunately. But it is always good if people think about it, then someday someone has an idea that turns out working.
>>> Of course, this is all getting pretty complicated.
Instable modification. Mosquitos profit from having as many potential hosts as possible.
>> It would probably
>be
>>> better to focus both on reinforcing a population mosquitoes with an
>>> aversion to human hosts
Will mutate back quickly.
> (through natural breeding, perhaps, or maybe
A mosquito genocide?
>>> through a virus that targets the chromosomes of undeveloped larvae
>>> directly),
Consider, they are nasty but nevertheless part of an equilibrium. The stronger you disturb it, the unforeseeable the consequences.
> and on breeding predators/parasites/
Could work, still there is the danger of unforeseeable equilibrium changes, the parasite could eg invade other species not present in its natural habitat.
> non-lethal competing
>strains
>>> of Plasmodium.
Brilliant! Introduce reduced virulence as a fitness concept, like influenza does.
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