Thanx Kukeh for sharing. I have a few concerns with these idiots (the knucklehead scientists). Once those concerns are adequately addressed, I will support their expedition. 1. The mosquito are prey for other animals in a food chain. Make sure those predators will not develop a preferential appetite for the non-malaria mosquitos thereby exploding the population of malarial mosquitos to compound the problem. 2. Please don't tell us the enormous funds spent on anti-malaria insecticides now will just be shifted to the cost of deploying these new-mosquitos. 3. Why don't you just work on giving the malaria mosquito another source of food or wean them off blood or even focus on the breeding grounds of the mosquitos for mitigation of Malaria, the disease rather than introduce a new toy mosquito into our friggin world. Make sure you understand the values of the malaria mosquito in ecosystem connectivities before you endanger ecosystem synergies. You could be creating greater problems for mankind and other animals by fucking with the qualitative partners of those ecosystems. Just because you stumble upon a way to eliminate something doesn't mean you should eliminate it you idiot. Thanx again Kukeh for sharing. Haruna. -----Original Message----- From: Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]> To: GAMBIA-L <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tue, Jul 20, 2010 10:22 am Subject: BBC E-mail: Malaria-proof mosquito engineered Malanding Jaiteh saw this story on the BBC News website and thought you hould see it. ** Malaria-proof mosquito engineered ** eneticists successfully introduce a gene to mosquito larvae that blocks the evelopment of the malaria parasite. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/science-environment-10654599 > * BBC Daily E-mail ** hoose the news and sport headlines you want - when you want them, all n one daily e-mail http://www.bbc.co.uk/email > * Disclaimer ** he BBC is not responsible for the content of this e-mail, and anything written n this e-mail does not necessarily reflect the BBC's views or opinions. Please ote that neither the e-mail address nor name of the sender have been verified. If you do not wish to receive such e-mails in the future or want to know more bout the BBC's Email a Friend service, please read our frequently asked uestions. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/4162471.stm ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ o unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web nterface t: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l o contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤