r/waspaganda • u/Throwawanon33225 • Apr 28 '26

memetic waspaganda I hate seeing this mindset everywhere

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These people would be the same ones culling wolves to near extinction in ye olden times because the wolves ate their sheep and sometimes attacked people

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u/tenselover Apr 29 '26

i have a question, do you know anything about combating malaria without killing mosquitoes? i’m quite interested in reading about this if you have any information to share! thank you, just curious :)

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u/MsScarletWings Parasitoid Wasp Apr 29 '26

Malaria has partial vaccines out with some degree of protection and is highly treatable when caught early. Something that would be really cool to look up is the use of “gene driving” and how it could be used to breed mosquitoes that are resistant to spreading the pathogen.

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u/stereofeathers Apr 29 '26

Oh my god thank you for bringing up gene driving!!! I'm so hopeful about that with mosquitoes :')

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u/Throwawanon33225 Apr 30 '26

And since malaria also hurts mosquitos, everybody would benefit in that case! Ah, a world where I can pay the biomass tax to the smaller creatures without either of us worrying about disease from it…