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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.[1] Eradication of various mosquito species including Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, which spread diseases including dengue fever, chikungunya, and Zika fever,[2][3] has been attempted in North and South America,[4][5] Australia,[6] and Asia,[7] but these have either not been attempts at total eradication or have not succeeded in the long term.[8]
Global eradication of mosquitoes has been proposed; the feasibility, ecological impact, and ethics of this are debated.[9]
TODO: add some stuff about various methods/proposed methods? IIRC DDT, these infertile males, and the gene drive thing.
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Working bibliography
editTODO: 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.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
- ^ Feltman, Rachel; Kaplan, Sarah (August 1, 2016). "Dear Science: Why can't we just get rid of all the mosquitoes?". The Washington Post. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
- ^ "Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762)". Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit. Archived from the original on 7 January 2023. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
- ^ Hochedez, Patrick; Jaureguiberry, Stephane; Debruyne, Monique; Bossi, Philippe; Hausfater, Pierre; Brucker, Gilles; Bricaire, Francois; Caumes, Eric (October 2006). "Chikungunya Infection in Travelers". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 12 (10): 1565–1567. doi:10.3201/eid1210.060495. ISSN 1080-6040. PMC 3290953. PMID 17176573.
- ^ McGregor, Bethany L; Connelly, C Roxanne (23 August 2020). "A Review of the Control of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Continental United States". Journal of Medical Entomology. 58 (1): 10–25. doi:10.1093/jme/tjaa157.
- ^ Löwy, Ilana (April 2017). "Leaking Containers: Success and Failure in Controlling the Mosquito Aedes aegypti in Brazil". American Journal of Public Health. 107 (4): 517–524. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2017.303652. ISSN 0090-0036. PMC 5343710. PMID 28207332.
- ^ Beebe, Nigel W.; Pagendam, Dan; Trewin, Brendan J.; Boomer, Andrew; Bradford, Matt; Ford, Andrew; Liddington, Catherine; Bondarenco, Artiom; De Barro, Paul J.; Gilchrist, Joshua; Paton, Christopher; Staunton, Kyran M.; Johnson, Brian; Maynard, Andrew J.; Devine, Gregor J. (2021-10-12). "Releasing incompatible males drives strong suppression across populations of wild and Wolbachia -carrying Aedes aegypti in Australia". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118 (41): e2106828118. doi:10.1073/pnas.2106828118. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 8521666. PMID 34607949.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: PMC format (link) - ^ Guglielmi, Giorgia (2019-07-17). "World's most invasive mosquito nearly eradicated from two islands in China". Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02160-z.
- ^ "yellow fever mosquito - Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus)". entnemdept.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-07.
- ^ "Would it be wrong to eradicate mosquitoes?". BBC News. 2016-01-28. Retrieved 2023-01-07.