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And lakes with fish have more mosquitos, even though they eat them.

So I assume everybody knows that if you actually had a piece of amber and it had an insect in it, and you drilled into it, and you got something out of that insect, and you cloned it, and you did it over and over and over again, you'd have a room full of mosquitos.

He thought it was transmitted by mosquitos.

So some of the people in some of the tents had dirty clothes and some of the people were in tents that were full of mosquitos that had been exposed to yellow fever.

And you would think, would you not, that with all our science, with all our advances in society, with better towns, better civilizations, better sanitation, wealth, that we would get better at controlling mosquitos, and hence reduce this disease.

So we must be good at killing mosquitos.

This is really unpleasant stuff, and if it was any good, we wouldn't have this massive increase in mosquitos and we wouldn't have this massive increase in dengue fever.

Now if that male is carrying a gene which causes the death of the offspring, then the offspring don't survive, and instead of having 500 mosquitos running around, you have none.

In about four months of release, we've brought that population of mosquitos — in most cases we're dealing with villages here of about 2,000, 3,000 people, that sort of size, starting small — we've taken that mosquito population down by about 85 percent in about four months.

And we've got a production unit in Oxford, or just south of Oxford, where we actually produce these mosquitos.

It's carried in the bites of infected mosquitos, and it's probably our oldest scourge.

And I really hated the mosquitos for that.

We're certainly not supposed to swat mosquitos.

Only about 12 species of mosquitos carry most of the world's malaria, and we know quite a bit about the kinds of watery habitats that they specialize in.

So you might think, then, well, why don't we just avoid the places where the killer mosquitos live?

These are places where mosquitos breed.

You're getting bitten by mosquitos more.

And mosquitos multiply endlessly in one of their favorite manmade nurseries – rubber tires, which last for almost a thousand years.

So for example, have you ever noticed how some people get bitten by mosquitos way more often than others?

For example, I seldom get bitten by mosquitos, but my partner Amanda attracts them in droves, and the reason why is that we have different microbes on our skin that produce different chemicals that the mosquitos detect.

In Alaska, swarms of mosquitos can get so thick that they actually asphyxiate caribou.

There are actually thousands of species of mosquitos in the world, but they all share one insidious quality: they suck blood, and they're really, really good at sucking blood.

But it's not just that mosquitos are annoying, they're also deadly.

But some scientists say that mosquitos aren't actually all that important.

The problem is that nobody knows what would happen if we killed off all the mosquitos.

20 years ago, a biologist named Anthony James got obsessed with the idea of making mosquitos that didn't transmit malaria.

Now that you've got a malaria-resistant mosquito, how do you get it to replace all the malaria-carrying mosquitos?

There are a couple options, but plan A was basically to breed up a bunch of the new genetically-engineered mosquitos release them into the wild and hope that they pass on their genes.

The problem was that you'd have to release literally 10 times the number of native mosquitos to work.

So in a village with 10,000 mosquitos, you release an extra 100,000.

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