Since, mosquitoes are the biggest human killer as compare to any other creature/entities. They are turning more and more aggressive as the impact of Global warming, even entered in world's temperate regions, where they were never before. Dengue, Viral Encephalitis, Zika associated diseases evading and engulfing millions of lives every year (There is no vaccination and specific treatment) so far. It is Alarming conditions for the world; specially, for Asian and African. In 2018, amidst various mosquitoes managing and preventive research, Google' Parent Company: 'Alphabet' claimed that they a have found a strong biological control of disease spreading mosquito by infecting Wolbachia; experiment was successfully conducted on 10000 mosquitoes species, as per report. After that, there is no information: How they gonna to be eradicate those targeted mosquito species. During net exploring, I found that some environmental conscious bodies do not support complete eradication because of the ecological chain disturbance, that's probably already altered/disturbed by our daily activities. We have lost several bird and butterfly species in past few years, but I think mosquito are more important than any other creature on earth
Dear Nishant Gupta,
First teaching the people how to defend themselves against mosquitos… Biological defend (which attack larva of mosquitos)… The chemical protection is not so good…
This following idea is a great idea and is for the help of humanity against mosquito: ‘biological vaccination of mosquitos with weakened bacteria or viruses’--- that is a realizable thing - who will do it he deserves the Nobel Prize in Medicine!
Regards,
Laszlo
I agree with László Attila Horváth , and we have to continue to look for biological control agents for mosquitoes.
By the way, due to climate changes also in Germany, Aedes albopictus has meanwhile firmly established in some parts of the country.
Very important query! We need also to get rid of this dangerous vector effectively. Dengue is now emerged as a serious problem in our area. Although many steps are being taken by the authorities. Still its a strong threat to life here!
Another promising avenue is to make mosquitoes resistant to the parasites that cause the diseases. In Australia, the Eliminate Dengue programme is using naturally occurring bacteria to reduce the ability of mosquitoes to pass dengue between people. Additionally, please see this link: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/kill-all-mosquitos-180959069/
Thanks to all eminent scientist for your valuable discussion and suggestions. My concern actually about biological control; existed research shows only few bacterial species that infect mosquitoes and usually make the sterile, wolbachia bacterial species also one of them, that is studies extensively but it not cause any harm in Ades mosquito species, since Ades is top most killer.
- Badges
- Science topic
- Similar topics
- Geoscience
- Asia
- India