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Scientists Discover Drug That Could Make Human Blood Deadly to Mosquitos in Fight Against Malaria
Euronews ^ | 27/03/2025 | Oceane Duboust

Posted on 03/27/2025 5:03:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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The drug companies will sell mosquitos a drug that protects them from human blood...
1 posted on 03/27/2025 5:03:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Sickle Cell Anemia was a condition that protected humans from malaria, but has terrible symptoms today. They have treatments, but they are $2.2M, plus care.


2 posted on 03/27/2025 5:04:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Tabasco Sauce. We’ve known for years.


3 posted on 03/27/2025 5:05:47 PM PDT by GingisK
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One way to stop the spread of diseases transmitted by insects is to make the blood of animals and humans toxic

Does cyanide work? Our peer reviewed studies show that it is safe on humans.

4 posted on 03/27/2025 5:06:18 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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There was a time in my life, decades ago, I probably sent some mosquitoes to their maker by alcohol poisoning.


5 posted on 03/27/2025 5:07:21 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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If they kill off the mosquitos, then the whole food chain suffers. This is not a good idea.


6 posted on 03/27/2025 5:07:31 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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There it is. Last paragraph. Climate change causes more mosquitos.
7 posted on 03/27/2025 5:11:11 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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The world has gone mad.


8 posted on 03/27/2025 5:13:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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I’d love to pay those skeeters back for giving me malaria.
I felt like I would have to get better to die.


9 posted on 03/27/2025 5:17:50 PM PDT by ComputerGuy ( )
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"DC Judge Rules Against Nitisinone Makers in Favor of Mosquito Reproduction Rights"
10 posted on 03/27/2025 5:18:02 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (space lord mother plucker)
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I’m no fan of mosquitoes, but I’m with you on this one. Probably not a good idea to mess with nature like this


11 posted on 03/27/2025 5:28:45 PM PDT by Antihero101607
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I want that!

EVERYTHING bites the sh*t out of me.

12 posted on 03/27/2025 5:31:30 PM PDT by NativeSon ( *> <*)
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I have found B complex pills refuse itchy mosquito bites. As an avid golfer I battled mosquitos often. B vitamin rich blood tastes bitter to mosquitos. They take one sip and fly away.


13 posted on 03/27/2025 5:43:11 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes (I am in mid-80's and I am not gonna change my opinions.)
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Reduce — not refuse.


14 posted on 03/27/2025 5:44:21 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes (I am in mid-80's and I am not gonna change my opinions.)
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Eat the flowers of the plantain plant as a mosquito repellent.
About a half dozen per day, it starts to work after a couple weeks.
They don’t taste bad.

Old Ojibwa Indian trick.


15 posted on 03/27/2025 5:45:30 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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Oh, Yeah, I want stuff in my blood that poisons critters.... (I’m a critter too.)

Sounds like something Gates- Pfizer- ModeRNA would like to fill us up with.


16 posted on 03/27/2025 5:52:58 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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I used to get eaten alive by mosquitoes. Now they don’t touch me. Bourbon is the best mosquito repellent out there.


17 posted on 03/27/2025 5:55:52 PM PDT by HerrBlucher
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There's a problem in logic here.

Say I take this drug and am bitten by a malarial mosquito. Maybe the bug dies, but I still get malaria, right?

Seems to me this idea of ending malaria by killing off mosquitos only works if every human and every animal is vaccinated.

Haven't we been down this path before?

18 posted on 03/27/2025 6:05:39 PM PDT by ZOOKER
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What could possibly go wrong? Turning our blood into insecticide….


19 posted on 03/27/2025 6:15:26 PM PDT by gunnut
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DDT works fine against mosquitoes and other bugs. I used it for years in the 60s and I’m fine.


20 posted on 03/27/2025 6:16:56 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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