Mutant Mosquito to Curb Dengue

hello yspmyl! have they already tested the effects of these mutant mosquitoes? maybe they have, or else the government would not be permitting their release. But the question remains, how long have they tested the effects of these mutant mosquitoes? had they been tested long enough to really assure the public that it would not cause more harm to the public, especially to the children? Is there no other means of eradicating dengue, other than releasing these mutant mosquitoes? we just hope and pray that this move would turn out to be in our favor or else, we would be facing another problem, something that maybe more dangerous than dengue. God help us..

I think if scientist have mutated this mosquito then there would be some mutation also in their disease spreading nature, but for me, if it is for dengue virus then it is good, because there were lot of deaths due to this virus and a lot of people already suffered from it. So I think let them do it, at least it ll not be as fatal as dengue virus which is killing hundards of people, we are already taking precautions against mosquito, so there should be no problem for us, we should think of those families and people who are at risk due to dengue God bless us All

I think that the best way to get rid of many mosquitoes would be to take away all swamp areas. That is the sort of environment that mosquitoes like. I know that is a certain female mosquito that can give someone malaria. I know that is a disease that can make people very ill or even kill them. Dengue fever sounds horrible. I wonder how adding mutated male mosquitoes will curb the dengue fever. I think adding lots more mosquitoes will mean a lot of local people in your area will be bitten. Good luck to the people that live in your home country. In Kenya and Indonesia I took anti malaria pills. When I was in some parts of Australia and New Zealand I had experienced been bitten by sand flies. They bite during the day and putting on baby oil for my legs stops getting any bites. Mosquitoes are harder to avoid and I have used insect repellent. In Queensland, Australia, dengue fever sometimes is caught.

hi yspmyhl the mutant mosquitos will probably not be able to bred sp as their life span is shortened it is likely that they will soon die out and that should lessesn the cases of dengue fever hopefully.I have a hundh it they are nutated their other abilities will be altered too so they cannot breed.I hope this proves to be the case and the number of cases of dengue fever cases drop dramatically;

I have heard long time ago about scientists controlling some pests by releasing sterile males. But the mutales males sounds risky to me as anyway they will reproduce. There are other variables that are not mentioned. How long will the offspring life of the mutant mosquitos be? The short life scan could be just a resesive trait and it would be worse. In my country, may decades ago, a malaria area was cleaned by taking take of the swamps in the area. Mosquitoes seem invencible

Close watching and preventive steps should be taken among the residents and the government to stop the mosquito to breed. If the project is beyond the control, is the government ready for the consequences? Has the government informed the public about their preparation if the project fail?

What if doing this ,they will also create another kind of disease acquired from mosquito bites? These mutation might give much problem instead of helping to reduce,yet gives more risks to us. This modern technology caused a lot of problem,rather than of advantages. Let's hope they're not putting us more in danger by doing that (mutation)