Aedes aegypti (the “Dengue mosquito”) should be eradicated from the Americas by releasing genetically-modified mosquitoes carrying self-perpetuating lethal mutations.
Proof of concept, capacity, and feasibility. I’d love to see this done for all disease-carrying mosquitoes, but you’ve got to start somewhere.
can a lethal mutation be self-perpetuating?
Yes. I’m actually not sure if this would work at a continental scale (or rather, how many modified mosquito releases would be required, is this number infeasible, etc). This is something I’m interested in modelling.
Aedes aegypti (the “Dengue mosquito”) should be eradicated from the Americas by releasing genetically-modified mosquitoes carrying self-perpetuating lethal mutations.
Why limit it to the Americas? And can a lethal mutation be self-perpetuating?
Proof of concept, capacity, and feasibility. I’d love to see this done for all disease-carrying mosquitoes, but you’ve got to start somewhere.
Yes. I’m actually not sure if this would work at a continental scale (or rather, how many modified mosquito releases would be required, is this number infeasible, etc). This is something I’m interested in modelling.