A 'game changer' for Malaria?

Jul 28 2021 from The Guardian

Malaria kills about 400,000 people a year, more than half of them children, and there were about 229,000,000 cases in 2019.

Genetic engineering test with mosquitoes ‘may be game changer’ in eliminating malaria

Extract from the article, gives the basic picture:

Scientists have successfully wiped out a population of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes by using a radical form of genetic engineering to render the females infertile – in the most advanced and largest ever test of use of the technology to fight the disease.

As well as bringing fresh hope in the fight against one of the world’s biggest killers, the study lays the foundations for further trials of gene-drive technology, which could mean self-destroying mosquitoes being released into the wild within 10 years.

Malaria has been around for ages, and remains one of the biggest killers, about time we did something about it.

¿What if we poured the same resources in fighting Malaria, that we are using to control Covid-19?