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Complete Prevention means reducing opportunities for mosquitoes to pass the parasite on to humans, and preventing the emergence of strains that resist drugs and insecticides. We’ll need next-generation vaccines that block transmission for six months to a year, so that once an area is cleared of the parasite, it stays clear. We’ll also need new insecticides to offset the widespread emergence of mosquito resistance to the chemical compounds we use most frequently today. We may even need cutting-edge approaches, like introducing special fungi into mosquito populations to kill them off or introducing modified genes that can stop mosquitoes from reproducing.

there is actually a better solution, they just have to figure out the delivery mechanism.

Read more: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140610/ncomms4977/full/nco...

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gm-mosquitos-c...



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