Chance discovery helps fight against malaria

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3. Not necessarily

because the main thing limiting human potential in tropical latitudes is malaria. It's nasty and debilitating even if treated by modern medicine. It's also on the move as the planet warms up.

If Big Pharma gets stuffy about protecting profit over people, I think the WHO will step in. It's that important.

There is also a vaccine in the works that is showing a lot of promise.

Attacking the parasite at its origin by creating GM mosquitoes that wouldn't incubate it seems ideal and is infinitely preferable than collapsing their numbers by sterilizing them, something that would have dire implications for the ecosystem. Like it or not, fish stocks and other creatures rely on them for their diets.