Mosquitoes: Should We Just Wipe Them Out?

Mosquitoes: Should We Just Wipe Them Out?
View of a mosquito through a window at a ranch near Puerto Natales, Chilean Patagonia on February 19, 2016. AFP PHOTO / MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP / MARTIN BERNETTI (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images)
Mosquitoes: Should We Just Wipe Them Out?
View of a mosquito through a window at a ranch near Puerto Natales, Chilean Patagonia on February 19, 2016. AFP PHOTO / MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP / MARTIN BERNETTI (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images)

Mosquitoes: Should We Just Wipe Them Out?

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The diseases carried by mosquitoes kill hundreds of thousands of people a year, and now there are new concerns about the Zika virus, for which there is no vaccine. So it seems like a simple question: Why not just eradicate all mosquitoes? Scientists say it’s not that simple. Here & Now’s Robin Young speaks with British researcher Dr. Philip McCall.

Guest

  • Dr. Philip McCall, Everett-Dutton Reader in Medical Entomology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

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