Brazil declares emergency after 2,400 babies are born with brain damage
The sooner we get serious and start to deal with mosquitos the better. We already know what needs to be done [1], now all we need to do is get on with. How many millions of people have to die before we solve the problem of mosquito borne disease once and for all. Are we really going to sit around for decades debating if we should use this technology or not?<p>Edit. For those who want to understand more about this gene driver approach (it is pretty complex and amazing genetics) this review is the best I have been able to find [2].<p>1. <a href="http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nbt.3439.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nbt.343...</a><p>2. <a href="http://longnow.org/revive/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Alphey-AnnRevEnt-2014-genetic-control-of-mosquitoes-copy.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://longnow.org/revive/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Alphey-...</a>