City mobile-services whack mosquitoes in North Pattaya

[Rimmer]

City mobile-services whack mosquitoes in North Pattaya

PATTAYA:--

Doctors and city administrators visited neighborhoods from Naklua to central Pattaya to provide health-care services and help stamp out disease-carrying mosquitoes.

The June 28 “Doctors at Home” event in Pattaya “Zone 1” saw city workers distribute mosquito-abatement pellets to drop in standing water and spray properties with insecticides to kill mosquitoes, the prime carriers of dengue fever and malaria.

Full story:http://www.pattayamail.com/localnews/city-mobile-services-whack-mosquitoes-in-north-pattaya-28217

-- Pattaya Mail 2013-07-12

[xen]

He is my hero, Willing to sacrifice his health by not wearing protective gear whilst spraying chemicals which must have some effect on his health if they are to be effective against mosquitoes so we can be mosquito free..

[seefah]

Great solution presented by Hadyn Parry at TEDtalks called Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpsRAk5HpK4

[Basil B]

I thought by the topic title that Mobile transmitters were kill of the mosquitos with RF

[Basil B]

Great solution presented by Hadyn Parry at TEDtalks called Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpsRAk5HpK4

Seems a great idea that would not take a lot of money to set up, I had a similar idea and that was to re-engineer mosquito DNA that produced males that their genes would only produce males, with the same genes.

same technology maybe could be used to get rid of fire ants and termites, and other species of insects.

Down side is the same engineering could be used to get rid of other species that important to our eco system, ie say it is used to get rid of wasps but buy mutation also rids the world of bees, lets not forget myxomatosis and the problems that brought with its misuse.

Edited July 13, 2013 by Basil B