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Here's Why It's A Very Bad Idea To Wipe Mosquitoes Off The Face Of The Earth

by The Daily Eye Team February 25 2016, 11:44 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 36 secs

It would be hard to find an insect more despised these days than the mosquito. The blood-sucking pest is considered more lethal to humans than any other animal in the world. It has long been blamed for spreading malaria that kills a half-million people each year and is now the villain behind the Zika virus that has sparked panic across South and Central America.

With little to no apparent value and the dangers of Zika to newborns becoming increasingly apparent, there are growing calls to wipe out mosquitoes. The web is filled with stories with headlines like "Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes" or "Would it be so bad if we killed all the mosquitoes?"

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HUMRA QURAISHI

Humra Quraishi is a writer, columnist and journalist. She has authored Kashmir: The Unending tragedy, Reports From the Frontlines, Kashmir: The Untold Story, Views: Yours and Mine, Bad Time Tales, More Bad Time Tales, Divine Legacy: Dagars & Dhrupad and Meer. She has co- authored The Good The Bad and The Ridiculous: Profiles, Absolute Khushwant and a series of writings with the late Khushwant Singh. Her take on what's it like to be a singleton in today's turbulent times, is part of the Penguin published anthology, Chasing the Good Life: On Being Single. And, one of her essays, The State Can't Snatch Away our Children is part of the Zubaan published anthology, Of Mothers And Others. Her essay in the volume on the 1984 Sikh riots, 1984: In Memory and Imagination is titled, Why not a Collective Cry for Justice!

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