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Should Malaria Be wiped out if Possible

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Just wondering what peoples thoughts on this are.

Keep in mind it might have a detrimental effect on the balance of nature.

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Originally posted by trawets113
Just wondering what peoples thoughts on this are.

Keep in mind it might have a detrimental effect on the balance of nature.
Mosquitos are weak. We should show no compassion for such pests and vermin. Wipe them out and exterminate them. Grind their worthless carcasses into the dust. They deserve no pity.

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Originally posted by rwingett
Mosquitos are weak. We should show no compassion for such pests and vermin. Wipe them out and exterminate them. Grind their worthless carcasses into the dust. They deserve no pity.
You like that phrase dont you.

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Originally posted by trawets113
Just wondering what peoples thoughts on this are.

Keep in mind it might have a detrimental effect on the balance of nature.
Is there any evidence that eliminating malaria will have consequences anyone would care about? If not, then yes, we should eliminate it.

In other words - why not eliminate it?

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Is there any evidence that eliminating malaria will have consequences anyone would care about? If not, then yes, we should eliminate it.

In other words - why not eliminate it?
beacuse it might affect the food chain in some way.

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Me making this post might cause someone on the other side of the world's head to explode. However I'm making it anyway.

Haha Mr. other side of the world guy.

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Originally posted by trawets113
beacuse it might affect the food chain in some way.
Well, I'd rather go with a definite benefit to humanity with a theoretically possible screwing with the food chain rather than not.

Definite good + possible bad = good bet.

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Originally posted by XanthosNZ
Me making this post might cause someone on the other side of the world's head to explode. However I'm making it anyway.

Haha Mr. other side of the world guy.
Dammit! I hate it when people make my head asplode. Now I have to put my skull back together like a jigsaw puzzle, stuff my brains in, get all the wiring in the right holes, and all this while my eyeballs are looking in different directions.

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Originally posted by XanthosNZ
Me making this post might cause someone on the other side of the world's head to explode. However I'm making it anyway.

Haha Mr. other side of the world guy.
Boom!!!!!!!!!! Splat!! Slobbber.!!!!! Splat!!!
There goes another one.
I'll have to get yet another one. And Just look at the mess its made.
Thanks a lot Mr other sider of the world dude.

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Originally posted by trawets113
Just wondering what peoples thoughts on this are.

Keep in mind it might have a detrimental effect on the balance of nature.
I don't think wiping malaria out will have a detrimental effect on the balance nature..
Wiping all moscitos out would defiantly do that but scientists should be able to eliminate malaria without wiping out all moscitios..

Its only a very small percentage of moscitos that can spread malaria.

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Originally posted by trawets113
Just wondering what peoples thoughts on this are.

Keep in mind it might have a detrimental effect on the balance of nature.
I think everything we wipe out will have a detrimental effect on the future. We are constantly aiming for a sterile enivironment which effects all of our immune systems. I think that if people continue to try and make our world a so called"sterile " environment then our immune systems will never be challenged and if or when a new epidemic comes along that maybe is a chain in evolution of something we have wiped out.......then masses of people will die because our bodies will not know what to do with it.
Viruses and bacteria i think are a major part of evolution "survival of the fitest". i am not saying that people should die because of it but i am instead saying that i think that it should not be irradicated from existance because a) i do not think that would be possible and b) because getting rid of it would not allow it to be exposed to people therefore in generations to come their bodies will not be able to even think about fighting it.

Well thats what i thought up in my lunch time break on a monday morning anyways while eatting cheesecake😛

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Originally posted by purclecow
I think everything we wipe out will have a detrimental effect on the future. We are constantly aiming for a sterile enivironment which effects all of our immune systems. I think that if people continue to try and make our world a so called"sterile " environment then our immune systems will never be challenged and if or when a new epidemic comes along tha ...[text shortened]... what i thought up in my lunch time break on a monday morning anyways while eatting cheesecake😛
Don't worry.
Bacteria will become immune to anti-biotics long before something like this happens.
Doctors prescribe anti-biotics much too regularly, slowly making bacteria more resistant to it.
When the bacteria have built up immunities to AB, what will we do?

We are the architects of our own doom.

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Originally posted by Crowley
Don't worry.
Bacteria will become immune to anti-biotics long before something like this happens.
Doctors prescribe anti-biotics much too regularly, slowly making bacteria more resistant to it.
When the bacteria have built up immunities to AB, what will we do?

We are the architects of our own doom.

tell me about it.....under our destruction and evolution i will be one of the first to die off being an asthmatic that has up to 5 chest infections a year......so much i ended up having pneumonia this christmas just gone as the antibiotics they normally perscribe me for this were not strong enough

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Doctors don't have the time to properly examine patients.
Anti-biotics are given 'as a precaution'. Also, people don't finish programmes of antibiotics - these factors are contributing to bacteria becoming immune.

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