EVERY 10 seconds a child dies from malaria. But there might be a way to
control the Anopheles mosquito, which spreads the disease. Scientists
say they can genetically modify whole mosquito populations so that the flies are
either susceptible to pesticides, or can’t transmit the malaria parasite. And
they’d only need to release relatively few GM mosquitoes to kick-start the
process.
According to the WHO, malaria claims more lives than any other communicable
disease bar TB, infecting around 500 million people each year. Yet it’s proved
impossible to eradicate the mosquitoes that carry the disease, because the
insects are so…
