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Mutant Mosquitos

Posted by michael on from the japanese-encephalitis dept.

guacamolefoo writes "Get me Stryker now! Mutant mosquitos are spreading West Nile Virus and malaria! And to think you thought that X-men 3 would be a rehash of the Dark Phoenix saga. Real life is much more interesting."

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  1. Big surprize? by Muhammar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just induced resistance like with pathogens. This mutation confers resistance to only one common insecticide (Malathion) - so they will use another one.

    In the end, they have to remove breeding ponds, like they have done when building Panama Canal.
    Moskyto swamp solution: Nuke and pave.

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    I doubt that we will ever figure out - and I suspect that even if we did figure out we couldn't do much about it
  2. Re:surprise? by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 2, Insightful
    does this surprise anyone? Darwin's natural selection at work maybe?
    Well, it may come as a surprise to the creationists. One of their standard canards is that "mutations are invariably harmful, so how could complex organisms evolve through a series of mutations?" Well, here ya go -- a simple and obviously useful mutation with far-reaching consequences.
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    The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.