What If We Killed All the Mosquitoes?
With the Zika virus in the news, some people have wondered why we don't just kill them ALL. Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow Dooblydoo thanks...
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Mosquitoes suck. Not just literally, their bites are also itchy and annoying, and certainspecies transmit parasites and viruses -- like the ones that cause Malaria, Yellow Fever,and Zika -- infecting and killing hundreds of thousands of people every year.And when we told you about the Zika virus two weeks ago, a lot of you had the same question:Why don’t we just kill them all? All of them! Kill all the mosquitoes!Humans are historically really good at making things go extinct. So it shouldn’t be toohard to get rid of these bloodsuckers… right?Yeah... not exactly.First of all, there are over 3,000 mosquito species worldwide, and only a couple hundredof them bite humans.Mosquitoes have been around for a lot longer than people, millions of years, and have survivedlot...
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Mosquitoes suck. Not just literally, their bites are also itchy and annoying, and certainspecies transmit parasites and viruses -- like the ones that cause Malaria, Yellow Fever,and Zika -- infecting and killing hundreds of thousands of people every year.And when we told you about the Zika virus two weeks ago, a lot of you had the same question:Why don’t we just kill them all? All of them! Kill all the mosquitoes!Humans are historically really good at making things go extinct. So it shouldn’t be toohard to get rid of these bloodsuckers… right?Yeah... not exactly.First of all, there are over 3,000 mosquito species worldwide, and only a couple hundredof them bite humans.Mosquitoes have been around for a lot longer than people, millions of years, and have survivedlot...
