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Comment on Eradicating Earth’s Mosquitoes to Fight Disease Is Probably a Bad Idea

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TL; DR: We actually have no idea what impact there is to having or eradicating mosquitos. So let's do nothing.

to which the answer is, more research to discover what mosquitos connect with and are any of the connections beneficial

mosquitos inhabit a niche which could be filled by another organism were they to be eradicated and then we're back to square-one in a new way

but yeh let's eradicate them

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