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Today, you learn what might happen if mosquitoes disappeared, why music played backward makes

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Some scientists think it would be totally fine if mosquitoes just disappeared, as in it would not totally disrupt our ecosystem.

Have I got your attention? Are you a mosquito magnet, Ashley?

No, mosquitoes actually don't really like me, which I'm pretty happy about.

All right, well, they bother some of the rest of us, Mortals.

So this is exciting news, potentially, for the rest of us.

Right.

The story is relevant too because of the very serious problem of malaria.

Every year the disease infects about 200 million people

and it kills a million people. Obviously not every mosquito

carries malaria but the main way it's transmitted is through a particular

mosquito species called Anophiles Ganby and many scientists think we should look into the idea of getting rid of these

mosquitoes. Better yet, we wouldn't even need to release toxic chemicals in order to do it.

The plan would involve releasing mosquitoes into the wild that were genetically modified with a gene for infertility.

After a couple generations, most of the population would just be rendered sterile.

And this could happen sooner than you'd expect.

There's a Bill Gates-backed nonprofit called Target Malaria

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