The Risks of Eliminating Malaria

There's about 3,000 species of mosquito and we're talking about... Yeah. Getting rid of only a few of them, the ones that carry malaria to humans. If we successfully eradicated those three or four species that bite humans that carry malaria, would malaria adapt? Would it jump to another species? Or would we disrupt its cycle with that knockout malaria too? I don't know. The biggest risk is that we wipe out those species and then in the future, an alien probe comes to the earth looking to communicate with those mosquitoes and can't because they've been wiped out.