Study the hell out of this, sure–But, don’t go releasing it into the wild so that it takes over every single mosquito species. Also, have some respect for the freakin’ malaria, as well. By this point, it’s reached an equilibrium in the biosphere, and we really don’t know what else it does, besides kill people pretty well.

I’m telling you, if you want to go knocking things around in the environment, you do it very carefully and very respectfully. I’m annoyed by mosquitoes just as much as the next person, but I don’t know what roles they fill in the environment, either. What are the knock-on effects? What happens if you take out the malaria, and then discover that it played a key regulatory role (somehow) in the environment?

This is not something you just throw out there casually–You need to know everything that organism does in the biosphere, before you casually eliminate it.

People are way, way too casual about this crap. Look at Australia and the rabbits, or the history of the various introduced species here in the US.