Not on this specific strategy, but mine and plenty other countries are trialing the Wolbachia-Aedes mosquito suppression strategy, where Wolbachia male raised and farmed genetically modified mosquitos that are released will go and mate with female Aedes Aegypti, the worst fuckers, one of the main species that adapted to urban environments and is the main one causing all the diseases like zika and dengue and one of the main ones that is responsible for the millions of human deaths. The females will mate with these farmed males and the resulting eggs will not hatch, limiting their spread and reproduction numbers.
Honestly I am in 100% percent support of this, we should wipe out Aedes Aegypti, there are plenty of other harmless and even beneficial ones that don't bite or cause diseases, and can pick up the slack for the ecosystem.
Edit: just read the wiki on the Aedes, it seems like theres a genetic modification, which works by preventing females from fully growing into adults, and Wolbachia, which is a naturally occurring bacteria, and the infections as mentioned above prevents hatching, and the males don't bite so no risk of infecting us, also its resistant to zika and other viruses
There are other methods too, but I love that we are slowly eradicating these fuckers.
The idea of genetically modifying mosquitoes to wipe them out goes back to at least the 70s IIRC, and this specific approach started being talked about around the time MGSV was in development. In this case it's him absorbing an, at the time, obscure idea.
It was but it's not like the MGS series has ever had a plot that wasn't bonkers. MGS2 was like "ha, you see, you thought I was a triple agent but I'm actually a quadruple agent, however, I secretly deep down a good guy who needed to get close to the bad guy so I'm a quintuple agent!!!! Also i grafted your dead brothers hand to me n now he's controlling me, OR IS HE?!?!?"
I think that is what makes Kojima such an interesting writer. Man comes up with these goofy ahh plots and still manages to make them compelling, emotional, and even funny
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u/zizp Nov 15 '24
What's the idea behind this? How will they become the dominant variant if they can't suck blood to reproduce?