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Zika and Zika - I Hate Mosquitoes

We talk about the idea of eradicating mosquitoes outright. They're responsible for yellow fever and zika, but also denga and chickengona too. There are some serious proposals to get rid of mosquitoes s as part of treating zika. I just hope that's the case. We can't say that we could get rid of anything wholesale without having a big ripple effect. But in the mosquito one of those that people like researchers think we might well yet get rid of without losing them.

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