Same story with me. My former schoolmate was younger than me and he passed away from dengue when I had it too. I've also had malaria in childhood so it's safe to say I hate mosquitoes with a passion.
@@CapnsafetypantsPoint proven, both are intenet jokes, first is an End Game meme, Thanos:"I used the stones to destroy the stones". The second is a reference to being a "party pooper" by taking a joke too seriously, hence being not fun at parties.
@@TheDeadGunslingerTheir joke is that the video is called that but isn't about that. They're saying next time they should do what they claim they're doing. I laughed.
Right, right, and if I call you a gentleman and then spend 8 paragraphs insulting you, I get to title a video about it "I complimented a guy!" without anyone feeling mislead?
I'm a senior in high-school, when I first heard about this story I was in 7th grade doing a research project on mosquitoes. I'm really glad the plan is actually starting to take shape, hopefully it can go global and these pests can be a thing of the past. Literally just flying used needles, goodbye measles!
There's a reason they've been going VERY slowly. There's a giant risk of there's something we fail to foresee. But they've spent years checking everything they possibly can and it seems shockingly safe.
@@Sam_on_TH-cam I didn't want to believe it, but you're right. They did add and acknowledge the informal definition of literally to the dictionary. I'm going to need some time to cope.
Dude fruit flies have beeeen bred to be infertile and mate with other fruit flies. It's nothing new to do something to insects in order to control their populations or negative effects on humans.
since you asked, forgive me if it's scary.. it's blood loss. in some parts of the world mosquitoes swarm and come at you in thick clouds. animals young, weak, or can't escape are literally sucked dry ☠
I already knew that due to watching a documentary on caribou and it mentioned how some of the calves are literally bled dry. Nature's horrifying sometimes.
Here in Argentina (and I believe most of South America), we deal with seasonal waves of dengue. Every summer, dengue cases skyrocket. This year was worse, at least in my province. There was a downpour that lasted like a week. That made mosquito hatcheries a lot more productive which lead to record highs in my city. My friend from uni got it and was hospitalized for a month and he lost most of his bodyweight. That's just this year.every summer I hear "X person got dengue and is in the hospital". Hearing that they are actively solving the issue puts a smile on my face.
@@jonlawrence19 They are very scarce at the moment. I just got my first dose a few days ago. Hopefully there will be enough by december for the second and last one.
I was diagnosed with dengue/fever when I was around 10 years old (around 2009), in Medellin, Colombia (Aburra Valley) the same place where this video talked about. I have been able to see first hand the declines of dengue related sickness and deaths. The mosquito program has been an incredible and clever way to stop the spread of this virus, often affecting low income families.
I’m currently laying here in a hospital bed. For the past 4 days I’ve getting over high feavers because I got dengue… your video is good timing on my feed
As someone who caught dengue fever in pandemic. Hearing this is very relieving. In my family, only my mom that has not caught dengue fever. Hope it stays that way
Mosquitos are pollinators, and part of the food chain for fishes, birds and some animals. They probably wouldn't haver evolved if they didn't do more good than harm.
"In my family, only my mom has not caught Dengue fever. Hope it stays that way." So you wish your children and grandchildren catches it, therefore your mother will stay the only one that hasn't? That's terrible.
@@Cra3ier and believe me your 2nd -4th gets exponentially worse. If you ever reach that 4th strain you'd be lucky if you don't get any organ failures, that's if you live ofcoarse.
I was diagnosed with Chikungunya in 2015 and I've never been the same since, I develop a rare case of osteocondritis in my right ankle and left me unable to use my foot for two weeks and after the virus was gone the condition remained, making my ankle to swell and hurt really bad to the point where I couldn't firm my foot to the floor. Bare In mind I was 15 back then so my body still was developing and body cells are healthier. In the end after many MRI and many orthopedic doctor opinions, I got surgeries in 2021, 6 years later and the condition has disappeared ever since. The virus truly changed my everyday life. From doing sports everyday for hours to barely an hour before I had to take a rest because of my ankle. I'm grateful this matter is being tackled because I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I did almost 10 years ago.
Really sorry that you are experiencing this. We’re now learning that it’s possible that these kinds of post-acute sequelae are common for any viral illness- COVID has brought this to the forefront. There is some possibility that the research into long COVID might help find treatments for a range of post viral illnesses. But until then, the only way to prevent these issues is to prevent getting infected by COVID or other viruses as much as possible. (Clean air, N95 masks, ventilation, anti-mosquito clothing/lotions, mosquito nets)
I hope that this can continue to help people. I had a relative that was brought to the ICU because of a severe dengue and I would say it was one of the lowest point in my life because of stress, on top of that I was also hospitalized at the same time because of mild dengue fever as well.
Bro, i was watching from Brazil and when you said that mosquitos are the deadliest animal on earth i just heared one in mu ear, my soul left oit pf my body
Metal Gear Solid 5 explored the idea of Modified Wolbachia spreading through vocal chords. Good to hear that in the real world it's being used for good
Watching this while recovering from dengue. I hope these solutions help with this problem here in brazil, we are currently having a dengue epidemic and it is not fun at all
They did that in New Caledonia in 2019 (on a way smaller scale, probably when it was still an experiment) and it totally work, going from 3000-4000 case of dengue each year to 2 in 2022 (which were imported by tourist who came back from Bali). The bad side is that for people around the mosquitos drop, you got more mosquitos around you, they can still bite you (whitout anymore risk though) and it's advised to not kill them as they are suposed to overtake the regular mosquitos population. But it's just a little bad moment that can avoid worst moment after that :)
I imagine, those billions are just a very tiny amount in the general mosquito population. After a few days, they die anyway and a typical mosquito doesn't travel much farther than 200m from where it was bred. Those genetically modified ones would just replace the other ones in a very short time and I'm sure no one would notice it during that period.
@@gintoki_sakata__not everyone's dreams involve them spending their life tinkering with mosquitoes and viruses, funny how you ask that with that profile picture
Majority of mosquito species carry zero diseases. I think if we're going to put the resources into this, just target the species that carry diseases. "Nuisance" mosquitoes don't actually harm anyone and just make you a little itchy. I don't think that warrants their eradication.
That's a little bit more of a stretch. The advantage of using mosquitoes is that they fly, so can cover a much greater distance in a far shorter time. Ticks are a bit more complicated since they can't even jump.
Here in Argentina we are experiencing a kind of mosquito epidemic. The number of cases has increased by x10 since the last year, so this progress seems brilliant and necessary here.
Singapore has been employing this technique as early as October 2016! To great success too, though they only release male Wolbachia infected mosquitoes in order to reduce the mosquito population.
Will this create a selective pressure for resistance to the bacterium? Or, as infected mosquitoes can still reproduce (infected female, infected male and female), will there be no selective pressure for resistance?
Infertility is a modification to males. The wollochia bacteria are separate and prevent dengue and malaria infection. The bacteria doesn't hurt the mosquitoes, so no need to resist. Females avoiding sterile males would be potential selective pressure, *if* there are existing genes that can avoid those males.
Mosquitos don't benefit from carrying deadly diseases so there is no reason that they would breed out wolbachia. If anything deadly diseases are bad for mosquitoes because it kills their food sources but haven't due the abundance of animals to feed on id presume.
As much as I hate mosquitos, I fear that if we eradicated them, then another insect may just come to specialise into that specific niche, because now it is no longer occupied by mosquitos
Fascinating experiment in Brazil! It's refreshing to see a potentially effective and ecologically responsible solution to address the deadly disease-spreading mosquitoes. Kudos to the scientists for thinking outside the box and betting on this unconventional approach. Looking forward to seeing how this pans out in the long run.
@@JesseJames_37 Either you kill the species of mosquitoes that bite humans, or you genetically engineer those species in a way that makes them not want to bite us and introduce them to the population to breed with other mosquitoes. Eventually the human=ick gene spreads to all of those mosquito populations and we eliminate mosquito bites from humans without killing any mosquito species.
@@GoeTeeks yeah obviously. But how do you do that? The actual mechanism I mean. We don't have a method of doing that, but we do have a method of greatly reducing the mosquito population (the video above). So, in an effort to conserve human life, we are going forward with it.
There is also an effort to do that. There's only about 6 species that bite humans out of a whole lot of species. If they all died, the others would fill all the other functions mosquitos do. The gene drive is a similar experiment that would kill entire species in the area where it is launched. It has been under study for a very long time because it is kind of scary if it goes wrong.
He absolutely answered the question. In the first minute of the video, he says that there would be very little difference in the world. We'd just be less itchy.
@@Quinton_ovo_ They still filled half the video with technically irrelevant content, leaving viewers to keep watching and hope that they see what they actually clicked for...
They might not give you some virus here But home shit there are so many of them if you open your door on a summer Night you'll have at least 10 of them in your bedroom making you unable to sleep and then you start iching every where i even had two bites on My pp yes two bites when i was at my cabin for 2 days😭
For those that are concerned with more mosquitos around, I haven't read about this one, but past experiments here in Rio released male mosquitos, and male mosquitos don't bite humans.
I noticed that as soon as they started talking about the wolbachia program, they didn't mention malaria again though, but just kept talking about dengue...
I have been following this for years and it is literally so incredibly fascinating. Highly recommend looking into this if you are even the slightest bit curious!
I wonder if they can do the same thing for tick and Lyme Disease which is nasty to get. I hope someone will spread the idea if it’s nor already talked about in the scientific community (if it can maje a change).
Sounds weird like that but there is estimated to be 110 trillion of those suckers so 5 billion doesn’t seem like a lot when you put that into perspective
I may hate mosquitos, but I definitely don't think they deserve to be eradicated. I'm glad the scientists are trying to reduce the harm they can do without just killing them
Glad I showed up! You want me to celebrate with you, or do you need a hanky? I can be available for either. (Pops a party popper in the pants) [wink] I think ima need this hanky to clean up tho...
Tell that to lake karachay... Feel free to take a swim, I dare you! Okay I take it back, 1 toe dip and the doctors will watch you perish with no way to help but ease the pain.
I think mosquitoes help natural selection, if I die I die and they are kinda cute ngl, one tried to bite my pants because she’s a little sped but it’s fine.
I think this isn't reducing the mosquito population very much- although Wolbachia isn't good for them it doesn't kill them off. But making sure it is endemic in the wild population reduces the viruses a lot. If both M and F have W, the eggs do hatch and bear W, so the intervention doesn't have to be sustained. Elsewhere I've seen it claimed that just a small set of species (six or so?) are responsible for almost all human infection, so selectively wiping out those might be worthwhile.
Yeah well its not trying to reduce the mosquito population, it's trying to reduce the number of mosquitoes that can spread diseases. Lets say there are a 10 million mosquitoes right now, out of which 3 million are mosquitoes that can spread deadly diseases like malaria and dengue, after infection them with wolbachia there still will be 10 million mosquitoes, its just that instead of 3 million on them carrying diseases there will now only be 100,000 that carry diseases
We’re looking at this problem all wrong! Not all mosquitoes bite! Only females from some species bite because their ovaries don’t fully develop during their adolescent stages, whereas the species that don’t bite have fully developed ovaries when they become adults. This disparity between the biting and non-biting species is why the biting species need to bite: they need the protein and nutrients from a blood meal in order to stay competive with the non-biting species. The solution? Genetically modify the biting species, helping them, so that their ovaries develop sooner negating the need to bite at all. Which solves the disease vector issues.
Implementation would be the same: mass produce millions of breeders to spread the trait in wild populations. Genetic modification would be insanely more expensive, require more research and development, carry much higher risks, and be more prone to failure.
@@blusafe1 the risks are the same. By intentionally spreading wolbachia into all mosquito populations there is just as much room for natural evolution of those wolbachia to evolve and mutate into something that could be harmful to us, potentially even more harmful at some point. Modifying the mosquitoes is more expensive in the short term and people are afraid of it because “something could go wrong” and we haven’t done it yet, but modifying them so that they are helped and don’t bite us means no more potential disease vectors at all from mosquitoes.
Can someone give me the source of this info? I Live in Brazil and i never heard anyone mention a "mosquito factory", Much less that they would be released. No one said it, nor the journal, nor the government, so tell me, where did you get that from?
cara, bem q é verdade né. Nao tem quase nenhuma midia falando disso. Nunca ouvi falar de uma “fabrica” desses mosquitos. Apenas poucas noticias q ja vinham noticiando isso desde 2017, mas sao raras e nenhuma falou em fabrica ou experimento em grande escala
@@gabe_br por algum motivo o meu Celular não me deixa editar mensagens no TH-cam, eu ia editar que afinal de coisas eu fui pesquisar e é verdade, tem até uma fonte confiável brasileira comprovando isso.
If half of all insects already have wolbachia, then what is the difference with making more with wolbachia? 50% is a lot of mosquitoes with wolbachia, and if wolbachia is so infectious to mosquitoes why arent all mosquitoes already infected with it at this point? What I'm saying is if wolbachia is already so common, is adding more mosquitoes with wolbachia actually going to change anything?
As an Indonesian, i remember back then mid-late 2000’s when i was on school many friends of mine absent because of dengue fever. Idk how valid my statement, but right now i barely heard people got sick because of it.
I got hospitalized with dengue some years back, and I have a childhood friend who died of dengue. Personally, I wouldn't mind a mosquito eradication.
Just those 200 types. Yes please. I'm so sick of getting destroyed every summer.
I got so afraid when my mom got it. It's been 10 years already but i remember being so scared
so I'm supposed to get a thousand mosquito bites because of you?
@@dpmjmun It was definitely scary. And so needless too because what niches do those types of mosquitoes even fill that no other insect can fill?
Same story with me. My former schoolmate was younger than me and he passed away from dengue when I had it too. I've also had malaria in childhood so it's safe to say I hate mosquitoes with a passion.
Scientists: I used the disease to destroy the disease.
Yo
@@Capnsafetypantslol what a fun person you must be
@@CapnsafetypantsPoint proven, both are intenet jokes, first is an End Game meme, Thanos:"I used the stones to destroy the stones".
The second is a reference to being a "party pooper" by taking a joke too seriously, hence being not fun at parties.
@@Capnsafetypants BS. You can't be something you never have been
Can't wait for you to find out how humans beat smallpox
My dad was killed by West Nile Virus he caught from a mosquito bite - would not be sad to see every single mosquito in the world eradicated
Will FK up natural cycle
@@MrHarshverdhandude in the video literally explained it wouldnt change much...
Bullshit
@@MrHarshverdhanidiot
@@Neven2468ya bro would just make up his dad dying
Interesting study. Next, you should do a video on what would happen if we killed every mosquito on Earth.
There are already videos talking about this.
It would actually change very little.
@@TheDeadGunslingerTheir joke is that the video is called that but isn't about that.
They're saying next time they should do what they claim they're doing.
I laughed.
He literally answered at the beginning
He literally said “A study shows that not much would happen”
Right, right, and if I call you a gentleman and then spend 8 paragraphs insulting you, I get to title a video about it "I complimented a guy!" without anyone feeling mislead?
I had hemorrhagic dengue in 2016, spent a full week hospitalized. If this program achieve success it'll be an awesome thing
I'm a senior in high-school, when I first heard about this story I was in 7th grade doing a research project on mosquitoes. I'm really glad the plan is actually starting to take shape, hopefully it can go global and these pests can be a thing of the past. Literally just flying used needles, goodbye measles!
There's a reason they've been going VERY slowly. There's a giant risk of there's something we fail to foresee. But they've spent years checking everything they possibly can and it seems shockingly safe.
Not literally.
@@xter7856 Check the dictionary. The word "literally" has been used wrong so much, the definition has literally (by the old definition) changed.
@@Sam_on_TH-cam I didn't want to believe it, but you're right. They did add and acknowledge the informal definition of literally to the dictionary. I'm going to need some time to cope.
Not "LITERALLY" 🤦♂, stop using that word in "LITERALLY" every sentence.
Bro, a bug factory? I didn’t know we were allowed to be super villains now, Ight time to build a death Ray
😅
*styropyro has entered chat*
There's already a guy that built a solar death ray on his yard
Dude fruit flies have beeeen bred to be infertile and mate with other fruit flies. It's nothing new to do something to insects in order to control their populations or negative effects on humans.
The UK already has that
"Primarily by spreading disease" - I'm scared to learn what their secondary method is
since you asked, forgive me if it's scary.. it's blood loss. in some parts of the world mosquitoes swarm and come at you in thick clouds. animals young, weak, or can't escape are literally sucked dry ☠
@@mobilemcsmarty1466wtf 😰😰😰
@mobilemcsmarty1466 I said I was scared man :(
@@mobilemcsmarty1466 What the f*ck???
I already knew that due to watching a documentary on caribou and it mentioned how some of the calves are literally bled dry. Nature's horrifying sometimes.
Here in Argentina (and I believe most of South America), we deal with seasonal waves of dengue. Every summer, dengue cases skyrocket. This year was worse, at least in my province. There was a downpour that lasted like a week. That made mosquito hatcheries a lot more productive which lead to record highs in my city. My friend from uni got it and was hospitalized for a month and he lost most of his bodyweight. That's just this year.every summer I hear "X person got dengue and is in the hospital". Hearing that they are actively solving the issue puts a smile on my face.
you don't have vaccines?
@@jonlawrence19 They are very scarce at the moment. I just got my first dose a few days ago. Hopefully there will be enough by december for the second and last one.
@ILOVEYanSim Pretty much, yeah. Summer is dengue season.
Same thing happens in Perú and if there is a vaccine, our gov and dept of health act very slowly. It's a real shame.
I was diagnosed with dengue/fever when I was around 10 years old (around 2009), in Medellin, Colombia (Aburra Valley) the same place where this video talked about. I have been able to see first hand the declines of dengue related sickness and deaths. The mosquito program has been an incredible and clever way to stop the spread of this virus, often affecting low income families.
I’m currently laying here in a hospital bed. For the past 4 days I’ve getting over high feavers because I got dengue… your video is good timing on my feed
Good luck mate. Rooting for your recovery
Good luck mate, had it about 2-3 months ago and the headaches were horrible, it does get better after 1-2 weeks though
Me too! Hope you are better
Did you die
Did you die
As someone who caught dengue fever in pandemic. Hearing this is very relieving. In my family, only my mom that has not caught dengue fever. Hope it stays that way
Good news! It's not COVID, bad news....
Mosquitos are pollinators, and part of the food chain for fishes, birds and some animals. They probably wouldn't haver evolved if they didn't do more good than harm.
Good news, you get immunity after getting dengue; bad news, you are prone to 3 more mosquitoes dengue 😅
"In my family, only my mom has not caught Dengue fever. Hope it stays that way."
So you wish your children and grandchildren catches it, therefore your mother will stay the only one that hasn't? That's terrible.
@@Cra3ier and believe me your 2nd -4th gets exponentially worse. If you ever reach that 4th strain you'd be lucky if you don't get any organ failures, that's if you live ofcoarse.
I was diagnosed with Chikungunya in 2015 and I've never been the same since, I develop a rare case of osteocondritis in my right ankle and left me unable to use my foot for two weeks and after the virus was gone the condition remained, making my ankle to swell and hurt really bad to the point where I couldn't firm my foot to the floor. Bare In mind I was 15 back then so my body still was developing and body cells are healthier. In the end after many MRI and many orthopedic doctor opinions, I got surgeries in 2021, 6 years later and the condition has disappeared ever since. The virus truly changed my everyday life. From doing sports everyday for hours to barely an hour before I had to take a rest because of my ankle. I'm grateful this matter is being tackled because I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I did almost 10 years ago.
Doctor yourself website
Really sorry that you are experiencing this. We’re now learning that it’s possible that these kinds of post-acute sequelae are common for any viral illness- COVID has brought this to the forefront. There is some possibility that the research into long COVID might help find treatments for a range of post viral illnesses. But until then, the only way to prevent these issues is to prevent getting infected by COVID or other viruses as much as possible. (Clean air, N95 masks, ventilation, anti-mosquito clothing/lotions, mosquito nets)
Take care bud
I've heard that bee venom is being used as a medicinal to reduce things like swelling and arthritis.
Damn, and yep good point.
Thank you for sharing
The plot of MGSV thickens
I hope that this can continue to help people. I had a relative that was brought to the ICU because of a severe dengue and I would say it was one of the lowest point in my life because of stress, on top of that I was also hospitalized at the same time because of mild dengue fever as well.
Bro, i was watching from Brazil and when you said that mosquitos are the deadliest animal on earth i just heared one in mu ear, my soul left oit pf my body
Well go get it back, bro... you need it in order to get into heaven!
😂😂
Passa repelente
We learn this in school man, come on😊
How are you from Brazil and not know the diseases mosquitos carry in your country? Like the most in the world
This is Nobel prize stuff, THIS IS A HUGE DEAL
Lol
It sure is. The amount of deaths it will prevent. This could be game changing for the global south.
I just wished it helped combat the real mosquito transmitted killer- Malaria.
Naive
@@bedobabado3824 Why is that?
Metal Gear Solid 5 explored the idea of Modified Wolbachia spreading through vocal chords. Good to hear that in the real world it's being used for good
All of Brazil is about to pick up learning 1 or 2 extra languages, just in case
If you remove the soldiers that speak kikongo you don’t get an outbreak on mother base (that’s as the infected language)
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Also in MGS V, there is an attack by a rival PMC led by a soldier with call-sign "Mosquito". Coincidence?!
Came here for that comment. Bring out old talker !
Watching this while recovering from dengue. I hope these solutions help with this problem here in brazil, we are currently having a dengue epidemic and it is not fun at all
You didn't answer your own question: "What If We Killed Every Mosquito On Earth?"
Actually, he did. He said: "we actually don't know the ecological fallout from eradicating every mosquito."
They did that in New Caledonia in 2019 (on a way smaller scale, probably when it was still an experiment) and it totally work, going from 3000-4000 case of dengue each year to 2 in 2022 (which were imported by tourist who came back from Bali).
The bad side is that for people around the mosquitos drop, you got more mosquitos around you, they can still bite you (whitout anymore risk though) and it's advised to not kill them as they are suposed to overtake the regular mosquitos population. But it's just a little bad moment that can avoid worst moment after that :)
I live in brazil and i hope demgue rates go down but also, i dont wanna have billions of extra mosquitos in my country
i live in a neighbouring country to yours and are as conflicted as you are with this news 😅
The mosquito population would quickly stabilize downwards. They are not a species that can persistently maintain high numbers.
@@blusafe1u sure? the mosquitoes in my city say otherwise kkkkk
I imagine, those billions are just a very tiny amount in the general mosquito population. After a few days, they die anyway and a typical mosquito doesn't travel much farther than 200m from where it was bred. Those genetically modified ones would just replace the other ones in a very short time and I'm sure no one would notice it during that period.
Also remember, males do not bite. Only females preparing to lay eggs.
Some places tried only releasing modified males.
These people are real life superheroes. I hope more people will dedicate their time to being this helpful
Are you?
@gintoki_sakata__ no I don't like looking at mosquitoes
@@gintoki_sakata__not everyone's dreams involve them spending their life tinkering with mosquitoes and viruses, funny how you ask that with that profile picture
Imagine having a device that exterminates all mosquitoes in your proximity
Majority of mosquito species carry zero diseases. I think if we're going to put the resources into this, just target the species that carry diseases. "Nuisance" mosquitoes don't actually harm anyone and just make you a little itchy. I don't think that warrants their eradication.
Can they do this with Lyme and alpha-gal infected ticks? Please?
Ticks, mosquitos and leeches are a curse on human kind.
That's a little bit more of a stretch. The advantage of using mosquitoes is that they fly, so can cover a much greater distance in a far shorter time. Ticks are a bit more complicated since they can't even jump.
Glad you put this video out, I’m not sure when I ever would have heard of this project otherwise. This is an incredibly cool thing they’re doing
Hello from Brazil! Glad to see people talking about what our scientists are developing. They deserve more recognition (over here, mainly)!
Here in Argentina we are experiencing a kind of mosquito epidemic. The number of cases has increased by x10 since the last year, so this progress seems brilliant and necessary here.
Bro what is your pfp ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
@@Michael-cj5oz What do you mean?
@@Ziggylingue-ue5ft You know what nvm😅
Short, straight to the point, interesting, and leaving learning something new and more interested in the matter. Left my like and support here 🤘
Singapore has been employing this technique as early as October 2016! To great success too, though they only release male Wolbachia infected mosquitoes in order to reduce the mosquito population.
As someone prone to mosquito bites living in a malaria infected country, ive been waiting for the mosquito-pocalypse my whole life.
Will this create a selective pressure for resistance to the bacterium? Or, as infected mosquitoes can still reproduce (infected female, infected male and female), will there be no selective pressure for resistance?
Infertility is a modification to males. The wollochia bacteria are separate and prevent dengue and malaria infection.
The bacteria doesn't hurt the mosquitoes, so no need to resist.
Females avoiding sterile males would be potential selective pressure, *if* there are existing genes that can avoid those males.
Yes it 100% will
Mosquitos don't benefit from carrying deadly diseases so there is no reason that they would breed out wolbachia. If anything deadly diseases are bad for mosquitoes because it kills their food sources but haven't due the abundance of animals to feed on id presume.
There's is no pressure for the mosquitoes, there might be for the bacteria to mutate because it's now sterile
@@davidaugustofc2574 it only takes 1 of them being immune then
As much as I hate mosquitos, I fear that if we eradicated them, then another insect may just come to specialise into that specific niche, because now it is no longer occupied by mosquitos
Didn't know Jürgen Klopp (1:48) was leaving Liverpool to kill mosquitoes.
😂
Fascinating experiment in Brazil! It's refreshing to see a potentially effective and ecologically responsible solution to address the deadly disease-spreading mosquitoes. Kudos to the scientists for thinking outside the box and betting on this unconventional approach. Looking forward to seeing how this pans out in the long run.
How about we make mosquitoes not bite us
That would be way to easy😂
... how?
@@JesseJames_37 Either you kill the species of mosquitoes that bite humans, or you genetically engineer those species in a way that makes them not want to bite us and introduce them to the population to breed with other mosquitoes. Eventually the human=ick gene spreads to all of those mosquito populations and we eliminate mosquito bites from humans without killing any mosquito species.
@@GoeTeeks yeah obviously. But how do you do that? The actual mechanism I mean.
We don't have a method of doing that, but we do have a method of greatly reducing the mosquito population (the video above). So, in an effort to conserve human life, we are going forward with it.
There is also an effort to do that. There's only about 6 species that bite humans out of a whole lot of species. If they all died, the others would fill all the other functions mosquitos do. The gene drive is a similar experiment that would kill entire species in the area where it is launched. It has been under study for a very long time because it is kind of scary if it goes wrong.
You fooled me with the click-bait 😭. I was really expecting to know what if there are no mosquitoes
Ikr
Same. Didn't answer the question
At the start he said it wouldn't have much effect in humans and most animals
He literally answered at the beginning
He absolutely answered the question. In the first minute of the video, he says that there would be very little difference in the world. We'd just be less itchy.
We wouldn’t have to worry about producing specific kinds of mosquitoes with a specific bacteria in them if we just deleted them all though.
Lord don’t ever let me die from a snail
What If We Killed Every Mosquito On Earth?
A full video on why they are adding more mosiquitos and nothing to do with killing any mosquitors.
Right??? Best and most creative ckickbait ever.
Didnt they say: Nothing bad would happen to us directly but we cant be sure because it's too big a magnitude to assess
Dumb ppl be like wait why dont they wipe out a whole species nothing bad could possibly happen
@@Quinton_ovo_ They still filled half the video with technically irrelevant content, leaving viewers to keep watching and hope that they see what they actually clicked for...
I like Metal Gear Solid V, hearing Wolbachia brings back memories.
I was looking for this comment literally just finished mgsv
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What if the viruses mutates to survive with Wolbachia? Viruses are the smallest living systems so they are the first ones to mutate and evolve.
Sterile humans
As a finnish guy all mosquitos dying would be one if not the best Day of My life
They might not give you some virus here But home shit there are so many of them if you open your door on a summer Night you'll have at least 10 of them in your bedroom making you unable to sleep and then you start iching every where i even had two bites on My pp yes two bites when i was at my cabin for 2 days😭
@@vekazu_is_great_guygas mask
Use soo much insect spray and wear a super strong gas mask
For those that are concerned with more mosquitos around, I haven't read about this one, but past experiments here in Rio released male mosquitos, and male mosquitos don't bite humans.
wolbachia just waiting for the right moment, they waited for us to take the bait.
5:06
@@Maquinoide-001 dude, it's a joke, u know, funny, ha ha?
Covid part 3
☠️💀
Attack of the killer zwolbachia!
I added a z to denote it's zombification. The movie posters will do a better job!
I had malaria as a child and it was a terrible time, fifteen years later and I still remember the feeling.
I noticed that as soon as they started talking about the wolbachia program, they didn't mention malaria again though, but just kept talking about dengue...
Wolbachia sounds like Wallechia. Given the tendency of mosquitoes to suck blood, I find this name similarity amusing. 🧛🏼
Same! What a fun coincidence. 😅
Everybody chilling until wolbachia mutates and becomes worse than the viruses we all fear
I have been following this for years and it is literally so incredibly fascinating. Highly recommend looking into this if you are even the slightest bit curious!
You didn’t even tell us whether or not it was feasible like you mentioned early in the video! It was one of your research questions, I NEED TO KNOW 😭
In reading the comments, it seems to not only be feasible but has been used since 2016 in different countries.
I used to do dengue research, about 10 years ago, and Wolbachia was the talk of the town!
I wonder if they can do the same thing for tick and Lyme Disease which is nasty to get. I hope someone will spread the idea if it’s nor already talked about in the scientific community (if it can maje a change).
I got a really bad sunburn one time so I wouldn't mind if the sun imploded.
*Everyone gangsta untill the virus mutates*
you’re exposed to the bacteria used in these mosquitos every single day.. It doesn’t simply mutate like a virus and it’s not harmful to humans
Thus the elegance of the solution. Wolbachia will naturally evolve alongside their pathogenic competitors.
0:02 bro just added French Guiana to Brazil in the map
Oh shit ur right
Releasing 5 billion insects sounds like a story out of a 2000 year old fiction book
Seconding that in the reshaped area for 1400 years because of the same book collection 😊 , hi there
Sounds weird like that but there is estimated to be 110 trillion of those suckers so 5 billion doesn’t seem like a lot when you put that into perspective
i was expecting him to just say "world peace"
I may hate mosquitos, but I definitely don't think they deserve to be eradicated. I'm glad the scientists are trying to reduce the harm they can do without just killing them
If I remember right, I think they did this here where I live in Florida too. I remember something that releasing modified mosquitoes to combat zika
And you believe them?
@@kasavaman007noo... they just release 5 billion mosquitos for shits and giggles.
@@toxxickillerzz5114you dont get it. what i mean is what they said is not what they do. where'd you think zika came from? naturaly?
@@kasavaman007Are you saying the disease is man-made? That ain't exactly feasible considering it existed that for centuries.
2:01 I was wondering what Jurgen Klopp was going to be doing after football, now I know.
bro did not have to do jurgen so dirty 😂
REAL😂😂
0:02 cool to know that now French Guiana is part of Brazil 🤣
Haven't you heard? Bolsonaro's declared World War 3!
mosquitos desappear: explosion, volcanoes, death... humans dessappear: calm, flowers, rain biodiversity...
My city recently had a sudden rise on dengue cases, so seeing this makes me hope that it won't be happening too much again
Wolbachia mosquito are everywhere right now in Malaysia and Singapore
What could ho wrong with modified mosquitoes ⁉️
Everything
this is a tremendous moment for humanity and it's making me emotional to think about it
Glad I showed up!
You want me to celebrate with you, or do you need a hanky?
I can be available for either. (Pops a party popper in the pants) [wink]
I think ima need this hanky to clean up tho...
Now we just need something to convince mosquitoes to not bite humans at all.
Like something you ingest to make your blood undesirable.
I live in Puerto Rico and I think about this every year, but every time I hear Circle of Life in the background.
Okay did we get the answer to the clickbait?
No
Guess you missed it. He said that we'd notice no real difference. Mosquitos aren't like bees. They aren't important.
No
0:18 is that vertasium?
I don’t know but I love him
I was screaming this got me so hyped up. Go science
Tell that to lake karachay...
Feel free to take a swim, I dare you!
Okay I take it back, 1 toe dip and the doctors will watch you perish with no way to help but ease the pain.
That would be killing off a major food source for lots of small animals and fish
I think mosquitoes help natural selection, if I die I die and they are kinda cute ngl, one tried to bite my pants because she’s a little sped but it’s fine.
I think this isn't reducing the mosquito population very much- although Wolbachia isn't good for them it doesn't kill them off. But making sure it is endemic in the wild population reduces the viruses a lot.
If both M and F have W, the eggs do hatch and bear W, so the intervention doesn't have to be sustained. Elsewhere I've seen it claimed that just a small set of species (six or so?) are responsible for almost all human infection, so selectively wiping out those might be worthwhile.
Yeah well its not trying to reduce the mosquito population, it's trying to reduce the number of mosquitoes that can spread diseases. Lets say there are a 10 million mosquitoes right now, out of which 3 million are mosquitoes that can spread deadly diseases like malaria and dengue, after infection them with wolbachia there still will be 10 million mosquitoes, its just that instead of 3 million on them carrying diseases there will now only be 100,000 that carry diseases
We’re looking at this problem all wrong! Not all mosquitoes bite! Only females from some species bite because their ovaries don’t fully develop during their adolescent stages, whereas the species that don’t bite have fully developed ovaries when they become adults. This disparity between the biting and non-biting species is why the biting species need to bite: they need the protein and nutrients from a blood meal in order to stay competive with the non-biting species.
The solution? Genetically modify the biting species, helping them, so that their ovaries develop sooner negating the need to bite at all. Which solves the disease vector issues.
Implementation would be the same: mass produce millions of breeders to spread the trait in wild populations. Genetic modification would be insanely more expensive, require more research and development, carry much higher risks, and be more prone to failure.
That could also change their birth rates, which may have a negative impact on the environment and quality of life
I’m about 1000% positive if you know this information, actual researchers and scientists have already looked into this. Way to try to sound smart tho.
@@blusafe1 the risks are the same. By intentionally spreading wolbachia into all mosquito populations there is just as much room for natural evolution of those wolbachia to evolve and mutate into something that could be harmful to us, potentially even more harmful at some point.
Modifying the mosquitoes is more expensive in the short term and people are afraid of it because “something could go wrong” and we haven’t done it yet, but modifying them so that they are helped and don’t bite us means no more potential disease vectors at all from mosquitoes.
1:06 then kill only those mosquitoes who bite
logic
Common sense.
To answer the question of the video title: the world would be a better place.
A mosquito in the corner of my room watching this vid with me
be like 👀💀
Juergen Klopp a scientist???
lmao, now i can't unsee it
😂
@ 5:48... If you like, what??
If you liked it
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I can't unhear it now thanks 😂
They just forgot one thing: life finds a way
What a very scientific approach
I didn't realize there were so many different mosquito species, interesting.
Did we get an answer to the question in the title?
Light: Human's ingenious plan, Pacifist mosquito plague
Dark: Human's ingenious plan, Disguised mosquito plague
Get rid of all of them.
Terrifying and fascinating..😅
alright, this video was the hypothesis
time for the practical test
If mosquitoes just vanished, an untold amount of ecosystems would likely crash. They are food to a lot of stuff
Yes they are food, but they aren't necessary. There's nothing in the world that specifically relies on mosquitoes as it's only food source.
GOD PLEASE DO THIS
You could tell me that wiping out mosquitoes would have a 50% chance of killing us and id still take that chance
They are going down with us!
Great video despite having a bait/switch title.
Can someone give me the source of this info? I Live in Brazil and i never heard anyone mention a "mosquito factory", Much less that they would be released. No one said it, nor the journal, nor the government, so tell me, where did you get that from?
cara, bem q é verdade né.
Nao tem quase nenhuma midia falando disso.
Nunca ouvi falar de uma “fabrica” desses mosquitos.
Apenas poucas noticias q ja vinham noticiando isso desde 2017, mas sao raras e nenhuma falou em fabrica ou experimento em grande escala
@@gabe_br por algum motivo o meu Celular não me deixa editar mensagens no TH-cam, eu ia editar que afinal de coisas eu fui pesquisar e é verdade, tem até uma fonte confiável brasileira comprovando isso.
0:27 I find it funny that the second deadliest creature for humans, besides the mosquito, are humans themselves😂😂💀
lol are you knew to how this planet operates? Not surprising at all and it use to be much higher centuries ago.
What about Malaria? Doea Wolbachia affect the malaria parasite the same way it affects dengue virus?
Dengue's very popular nowadays in our country😂😂😂
I hate mosquitos
The mad king reference in the thumbnail is wild
If half of all insects already have wolbachia, then what is the difference with making more with wolbachia? 50% is a lot of mosquitoes with wolbachia, and if wolbachia is so infectious to mosquitoes why arent all mosquitoes already infected with it at this point?
What I'm saying is if wolbachia is already so common, is adding more mosquitoes with wolbachia actually going to change anything?
As an Indonesian, i remember back then mid-late 2000’s when i was on school many friends of mine absent because of dengue fever. Idk how valid my statement, but right now i barely heard people got sick because of it.