Dr. Benny Peiser 19.06.2008 15:48 +Feedback
Genetisch manipulierte Mosquitoes könnten das Ende der Malaria bedeuten
Malaria kills nearly three million people worldwide every year, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. Millions of bed nets have been handed out, and villages across the continent have been doused with insecticide. But those measures haven’t put a significant dent in malaria cases. After a string of failed initiatives, the United Nations recently announced a campaign to provide bed nets to anyone who needs them by 2010. Some scientists think creating mutant mosquitoes resistant to the disease might work better. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has found the work so promising it has invested nearly $38 million into genetic strategies to stop mosquitoes from transmitting diseases like malaria and dengue fever. “This is one of those high-tech, high risk innovations that would fundamentally change the struggle between humans and mosquitoes,” said Dr. Regina Rabinovich, director of infectious diseases development at the Gates Foundation.
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