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Scientists create GM mosquitoes to fight malaria and save thousands of lives
Guardian Unlimited ^ | October 10, 2005 | David Adam

Posted on 10/10/2005 7:49:03 AM PDT by cloud8

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To: One Proud Dad
I watched this premise work against the screwworm fly back in the middle 1960's along the Texas-Mexican Border. It was highly successful. Screwworms used to be a major problem and now there are thousands of veterinarians that have never seen one.
61 posted on 10/10/2005 10:39:23 AM PDT by vetvetdoug (Shiloh, Corinth, Iuka, Brices Crossroads, Harrisburg, Britton Lane, Holly Springs, Hatchie Bridge,)
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To: One Proud Dad
I watched this premise work against the screwworm fly back in the middle 1960's along the Texas-Mexican Border. It was highly successful. Screwworms used to be a major problem and now there are thousands of veterinarians that have never seen one.
62 posted on 10/10/2005 10:39:34 AM PDT by vetvetdoug (Shiloh, Corinth, Iuka, Brices Crossroads, Harrisburg, Britton Lane, Holly Springs, Hatchie Bridge,)
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To: madconservative
"sterilize the male mosquitoes"......

Wouldn't it just be easier, and more cost efficient, to just smash the male ones?

63 posted on 10/10/2005 10:41:58 AM PDT by I'm ALL Right!
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To: cloud8

I'm just wonderin'....

do 'wild female' mosquitoes get turned 'on' by males with glowing genataila?

Will the 'wild females' say that it's not the size that is important but the how it "glows-as-it-goes"?

Won't word get out to all the hot 'wild females' that the glowers are all show and not produce??


64 posted on 10/10/2005 10:43:20 AM PDT by griffin
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To: nevergore

Have no fear, no queer here. LOL


65 posted on 10/10/2005 10:56:17 AM PDT by B4Ranch (3 to 5 seconds check- employees immigration status - http://uscis.gov/graphics/services/SAVE.htm)
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To: griffin

ROTFLMAO!! That's a good piece of writing!


66 posted on 10/10/2005 10:57:23 AM PDT by B4Ranch (3 to 5 seconds check- employees immigration status - http://uscis.gov/graphics/services/SAVE.htm)
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To: cloud8
that makes the testicles of the male mosquitoes fluorescent

Wow! They took my problem and gave it to mosquitoes? How humbling!

67 posted on 10/10/2005 11:14:33 AM PDT by upchuck (A fireman running up the stairs at the WTC as the towers began to collapse: HERO defined ~ Ben Stein)
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Attention all mosquito eaters...

Prepare to become very hungry.

:)

DDT would be easier and cheaper.

68 posted on 10/10/2005 11:17:38 AM PDT by upchuck (A fireman running up the stairs at the WTC as the towers began to collapse: HERO defined ~ Ben Stein)
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