Love the Science ASAP channel on YouTube. Great videos!
Our region of New England gets hit with Eastern Equine and West Nile encephalitis every year. We normally see a couple dozen cases erupting starting in late Spring. We have to make sure that nothing here has standing water in it. This kind of program would be great here, but about all we do in RI is use catch traps to gather the mosquitos for testing of both EEE and WNV. If/when a test comes back positive, then they just broadcast safety tips on the nightly news...
Sounds like the Wolbachia is a good thing. I don't like mosquitos and think they are a nuisance. Getting rid of all of them sounds like a good idea to me.
Aside from NOT eliminating ALL mosquitos, this process doesn't even get rid of the disease-causing ones. They will still bite, just not make people sick, which is a good thing.
Rade: I hope something similar will be introduced in the US eventually, to get rid of them.
Mary: I think everyone who has ever been tormented by their infernal buzzing, much less been bitten, would want them gone.
Ricko: The video does say that if an infected male mates with an uninfected female, the eggs won't hatch, which I'd think would lead to a population collapse as the infection spread. Aside from that, wolbachia is only one of several extermination methods I've seen proposed.
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Love the Science ASAP channel on YouTube. Great videos!
Our region of New England gets hit with Eastern Equine and West Nile encephalitis every year. We normally see a couple dozen cases erupting starting in late Spring. We have to make sure that nothing here has standing water in it. This kind of program would be great here, but about all we do in RI is use catch traps to gather the mosquitos for testing of both EEE and WNV. If/when a test comes back positive, then they just broadcast safety tips on the nightly news...
Sounds like the Wolbachia is a good thing. I don't like mosquitos and think they are a nuisance. Getting rid of all of them sounds like a good idea to me.
Aside from NOT eliminating ALL mosquitos, this process doesn't even get rid of the disease-causing ones. They will still bite, just not make people sick, which is a good thing.
Rade: I hope something similar will be introduced in the US eventually, to get rid of them.
Mary: I think everyone who has ever been tormented by their infernal buzzing, much less been bitten, would want them gone.
Ricko: The video does say that if an infected male mates with an uninfected female, the eggs won't hatch, which I'd think would lead to a population collapse as the infection spread. Aside from that, wolbachia is only one of several extermination methods I've seen proposed.
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