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The Risk of Intentional Misuse of Malaria
There's on the order of 35 hundred species of mosquito world wide, and there's maybe half a dozen that carry human disease to any appreciable extent. We can suppress all those without getting rid of the mosquitoes. Eenhoghe to drive the mosquitoes extinct. Whec need to knock em down to low enough levels that they can't transmit efficiently any more. And then, since the parasite is gone, then we can let em come back. If we were worried about malaria and the arctic then this might be a bigger deal. But in the tropics you're highly unlikely to see any changes because mostofitham don't care about which species ouraqua are.