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  • GM fungus rapidly kills 99% of malaria mosquitoes, study suggests

    05/31/2019 8:06:13 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 70 replies
    BBC ^ | James Gallagher
    A fungus - genetically enhanced to produce spider toxin - can rapidly kill huge numbers of the mosquitoes that spread malaria, a study suggests. Trials, which took place in Burkina Faso, showed mosquito populations collapsed by 99% within 45 days. Conducting the study, researchers at the University of Maryland in the US - and the IRSS research institute in Burkina Faso - first identified a fungus called Metarhizium pingshaense, which naturally infects the Anopheles mosquitoes that spread malaria. The next stage was to enhance the fungus. They turned to a toxin found in the venom of a species of funnel-web...
  • Madagascar Unleashes Poisoned Rain to Break Locust Plague

    05/19/2014 1:45:56 AM PDT · by Berlin_Freeper · 14 replies
    naharnet.com ^ | May 19, 2014 | Naharnet Newsdesk
    The choppers swoop in, dumping insecticide over a plague-stricken village in Madagascar's stunning central highlands. "The goal is to break the invasion," explains Tsitohaina Andriamaroahina, head of a U.N. mission to end a locust plague threatening the crops of 13 million farmers on this island nation. n their countless billions the insatiable hordes cloud the skies as they spread across two thirds of Madagascar, affecting an area roughly the size of Germany or Japan.