Fighting Mosquitoes With Genetically Modified Mosquitoes

While I find them annoying, I'm perfectly fine living with them.

Nice try, though.

Or dying of the yellow fever or w/e else they give you? Very noble of you.

However, that isn't what I meant.
I meant to say that even now, as we speak, the people in Africa are doing their best to eradicate these deadly insects. They use whatever poisons they can. They drain or dry up swampy land. They do any number of things that have a far bigger effect on the environment than a clean excision of just A.aegypti.

But you don't see all the people who are outraged at the method described in this paper, standing there with signs "save Aedes aegypti!"

Maybe because the locals would tear them limb from limb. Maybe because they'd rather not catch any nasty bloodborne mosquito-transmitted disease. And maybe just because all those methods are "normal" whereas "genetic" is "abomination".