User:CharredShorthand/Drafts/Eradication of mosquitoes

The eradication of mosquitoes at either the regional or global level would constitute the deliberate extirpation or extinction of particular species of mosquitoes. It would prevent the spread of mosquito-borne disease and reduce irritation associated with mosquito bites. Eradication of various mosquito species including Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, which spread diseases including dengue fever, chikungunya, and Zika fever, has been attempted in North and South America,  Australia, and Asia, but these have either not been attempts at total eradication or have not succeeded in the long term.

Global eradication of mosquitoes has been proposed; the feasibility, ecological impact, and ethics of this are debated.

TODO: add some stuff about various methods/proposed methods? IIRC DDT, these infertile males, and the gene drive thing.

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Methods
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Ecological ramifications
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Ethics
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Working bibliography
TODO: this section is to help keep track of reliable sources which I can use to write this article. By the time it is ready to move to article space, all the useful ones should be cited, and this section should be deleted.

https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg25233643-900-if-mosquitoes-were-eradicated-what-would-be-the-consequences/

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/25/opinion/a-bug-s-death.html?sec=health&n=Top%2FNews%2FScience%2FTopics%2FMosquitoes

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35408835

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02160-z

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/kill-all-mosquitos-180959069/

https://theworld.org/stories/2016-04-04/why-famous-biologist-wants-eradicate-killer-mosquitoes

https://www.nature.com/articles/466432a

https://www.radiolab.org/episodes/kill-em-all

https://www.radiolab.org/episodes/what-if-we-dont-kill-em-all

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/8/13/20754834/mosquitoes-blood-type-zika-dengue

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/16/what-would-it-mean-to-eradicate-the-mosquito/

https://jme.bmj.com/content/42/9/578

https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/11/1051361

https://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/05/health/zika-virus-kill-all-mosquitoes/index.html

https://www.wired.com/story/genetically-engineered-mosquitoes-population/

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11673-022-10172-0

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/09/mosquito-target-malaria/570937/

https://www.nature.com/articles/466432a/

https://academic.oup.com/jme/article/58/1/10/5896020 - eradication attempts in Americas

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2021/10/australian-breakthrough-kill-off-mosquitoes/ - eradication attempt in Australia

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5343710/ - eradication attempt in Brazil

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02160-z - eradication attempt in two Chinese islands