GOOGLE: Wants to Release 32 Million Mosquitoes
BY: MIYINGO Ivan, MPhil, B. Pharm, MPS DEBUG PROJECT: Using 'Good Mosquitoes' to Eliminate 'Bad Mosquitoes' Diseases spread by mosquitoes kill between 700,000 and 1,000,000 people every year globally. This staggering toll makes the mosquito the deadliest animal on the planet by a wide margin. Mosquitoes majorly spread Malaria, Dengue Fever, Zika Virus, Chikungunya, Yellow Fever, West Nile Virus, Lymphatic Filariasis (Elephantiasis), and Japanese Encephalitis. Other diseases spread by mosquites include; Rift Valley Fever, Oropouche Fever, Ross River Fever, Barmah Forest Fever, O'nyong'nyong Fever, St. Louis Encephalitis, Eastern Equine Encephalitis, Western Equine Encephalitis, Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis, and La Crosse Encephalitis. Malaria remains the deadliest mosquito-borne disease by far. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) , malaria causes approximately 610,000 deaths globally. The WHO African Region bears a disproportio...