Hawaii’s birds are seriously imperiled by avian malaria, which spreads, like the more familiar variety of the disease, by mosquitoes. The counterintuitive solution to this dire problem involves releasing millions of mosquitoes into the wild.
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Hawaii’s birds are seriously imperiled by avian malaria, which spreads, like the more familiar variety of the disease, by mosquitoes. The counterintuitive solution to this dire problem involves releasing millions of mosquitoes into the wild.
The usual method to prevent malaria is to attack mosquitoes that spread the disease to humans, but now scientists are enlisting the little pests as allies. The method, still in the proof-of-concept phase, involves genetic engineering to bolster the mosquito’s immune system with mouse genes.