More deaths are attributed to this animal than mankind. Human pathogens and war combined do not surpass the lethal results of this nefarious animal.
This deadly animal is nature's flying syringe the mosquito.
If a mosquito were a gun, its ammunition is multiple pathogens.

Through mosquito bites

Zika virus is transmitted to people primarily through the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito (A. aegypti and A. albopictus). These are the same mosquitoes that spread dengue, yellow fever and chikungunya viruses.


What we can do has never been done.

We can make this mosquito extinct. This is the one species that virtually lives only among people. We can now do this with CRISPR and a world wide distribution of altered mosquitos. The treated mosquito will spread their genes with progeny that will be unable to survive.

The attack of the altered baby mosquito killer genes is forever passed down until no unaltered parent is left alive.

There is another method that gene alterations only limits the mosquito from harboring some select virus.


What we do not know is a scenario in which this killing gene altering method can infect another species. A frog, a bird or a cat can get gene alterations via a virus carrier in small segments.

Should we risk the "What If"

when we don't know what the what ifs are ?