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How genetically modified mosquitoes could be eliminated from the world
A study has suggested that incorporating genetically modified mosquitoes into a mosquito genome could break malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa, but no gene-drive mosquitoes have yet been released in the wild. The study analysed the distribution of 22 species of mosquito in sub-Saharan Africa between 1898 and 2016 to assess the shifts in mosquito ranges…
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The fight against malaria in Africa would be derailed by this mosquito.
A new mosquito species, Anopheles stephensi, has been found in Ethiopia which has been linked to a spike in malaria cases. “With typical malaria mosquitoes we tend to see them [ Anopheles stephensi] at a certain time of the year,” said Zohdy Girma Tadesse, a co-author of the study. It likes to breed in human…