the article keeps conflating the idea of eradicating human-disease-causing mosquitoes with eradicating <i>all</i> mosquitoes.  Presumably the strategy of genetically sterilizing male mosquitoes, for example, would only work for <i>aegypti</i>.  The article itself says, &quot;there are thousands of different mosquito species found across the planet, and relatively few of them impact human health&quot;<p>So eradicating human-threat mosquitoes may not have such a large effect on the global mosquito ecosystem.