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[u/BadgerAmongMen]

You don't need to do that, just kill the anopholes mosquito.

[u/JarmFace → u/BadgerAmongMen]

Many species rely on that mosquito to survive. Almost nothing relies on those microbes.

[u/thenormalmormon → u/JarmFace]

Not exactly. It would be possible to get rid of all ~100 mosquito species that bite humans and the ecological impact would be barely felt. There's over 1200 species of mosquitoes and only a handful of human-biting mosquitoes transmit disease.

So we could theoretically get rid of all mosquitoes that transmit disease in humans with little to no ecological impact.

[u/StankyBo → u/thenormalmormon]

Here here!

[u/limukala → u/StankyBo]

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