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No animal on Earth is more lethal to humans, killing over 600,000 people a year from malaria alone and up to a million when including other diseases like dengue fever and yellow fever: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35408835

From article:

>The effort is one of several focused on addressing the mosquito-borne disease that kills over 600,000 each year, most of them children in Africa. The complicated structure and lifecycle of the malaria parasite has long stymied efforts to develop vaccines.
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>After decades of work, the only approved malaria vaccine, Mosquirix, made by British drugmaker GSK (GSK.L), was this year endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO), but a lack of funding and commercial potential has thwarted GSK's capacity to produce as many doses as needed.

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Why not just kill the mosquitoes? No one will miss the bugs.

Have you tried doing so ? It's not easy.

I have a solution, but it involves pig blood and old nuclear weapons.

If could I find some pig blood I can start.

You might not have catch it but lately, news about a super mosquitos evolving to be resistant to insecticide did it's rounds on Reddit.

Plenty of creatures eat mosquitos, I thought...

This would be terrible for the ecosystem! Many species of fish, birds, bats, insects, salamanders, lizards, and frogs feed on mosquitoes! So it would run the risk of disrupting the ecosystem and threatening biodiversity. In addition, it may leave us without pollinators who feed on mosquitoes.