Mosquitoes Live to Bite Another Day

[Lodestone]

Our tiny, blood-sucking companions celebrate...

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots...es-on-hold

[Guest]

Someone should leave the gate unlocked one night over there in the lab.

[ElysianWort]

They not only live to bite on, they were celebrated the other day. The one with the most bites wins! [:0]
http://pix11.com/2016/08/16/at-the-russi...he-better/

[terracore]

So the introduced Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are genetically modifying humans by transmitting the Zika virus and causing our offspring to be born with shrunken heads, and the future victims of this plague don't want to use genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes to stop it?

I knew that eventually our species run at the top of the food chain would come to an end, but I never figured it would come crashing down because incidents like these where people get their GMO education from Facebook and bow to the biased media's interpretation of political correctness.

[kalakoa]

transmitting the Zika virus and causing our offspring to be born with shrunken heads

Additional lifetime medical costs for a child born with Zika are estimated at "up to $10M".

State's advice is still "avoid getting bitten by mosquitos."

[Justin]

quote:

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Originally posted by terracore

So the introduced Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are genetically modifying humans by transmitting the Zika virus and causing our offspring to be born with shrunken heads, and the future victims of this plague don't want to use genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes to stop it?

I knew that eventually our species run at the top of the food chain would come to an end, but I never figured it would come crashing down because incidents like these where people get their GMO education from Facebook and bow to the biased media's interpretation of political correctness.

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1000x like!

[pahoated]

The Hawaii Department of Health and Disease Control deserve a lot of credit for bringing the dengue outbreak under control and preventing local Zika, so far. Also, on Oahu, they have almost totally eradicated Aedes aegypti, a really fantastic achievement.

http://health.hawaii.gov/docd/dib/

Peoples' priority is totally skewed these days. They worry about the impact of GMO mosquitoes wiping out mosquitoes and how that may affect some birds food supply. These kids are being born with no human brain, the cerebral cortex never develops, all that is left is the primordial lizard brain. Some non-endangered birds having mosquitoes as part of their food supply are more important?

This opposition is coming from the acronym GMO being made synonymous with the word "demon". So many, so mentally challenged.

*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*

[terracore]

Oahu's victory over Aedes aegypti was only possible due to DDT. I was surprised to read that people are calling for DDT to be brought back to fight Zika.

I'm not a scientist but sometimes the devil you know isn't safer than the GMO. Hey that has a nice rhyme to it. I'm going to claim it as intellectual property:

"Sometimes the devil you know isn't safer than the GMO" - Terracore, 2016

[Justin]

Mosquitoes are doing way more damage to birds (particularly native birds) via various diseases and infections than helping them (by being a food source).

[kalakoa]

Mosquitoes are doing way more damage to birds

How much TAT do those birds pay? Because tourism is all we got, here.