Thai Nguyen
Professor Francis
ENC 1102
July 16, 2016

Changing Planet, Changing Health: The Mosquito'S Bite
An Annotated Bibliography

Epstein, Paul R., Ferber Dan, and Sachs Jeffrey. "The Mosquito’s Bite." Changing Planet,
Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It. U of California, 2011. 29-61. Web. 17 July 2016.

Each year, about five percent of the total human population are at risk from malaria (that's equal to one out of every twenty people on the planet). Mosquitos are the well-known carrier of this disease. Malaria is a complex single-celled microbe called a protozoan, it has the ability to dodge the immune system more effectively than most bacteria or viruses. This is one reason why it is harder to formulate an effective vaccine to battle against malaria.

Adelman, Zach1. "Let's Kill The Mosquito." MIT Technology Review 119.3 (2016): 11. Applied
Science & Technology Source. Web. 17 July 2016.

A recent development of a technology called the "gene drive" had presented the possibility of eradicating an entire species of mosquito. This gene destroys the female mosquito chromosomes which prevent female mosquitoes from flying or it would determine whether a mosquito becomes a male. …show more content…
In 2012, Jennifer Doudna ( UC Berkeley researcher) and her colleagues formulated the creation of CRISPR. CRISPR which stands for, “Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats.” CRISPR allows scientist to pinpoint any part of a cistron and transfer over the material that they desired to copy. With CRISPR, scientists are able to annihilate an entire race of mosquito. The only downside is that CRISPR is only able to eradicate one species of mosquito at a time and there are more than 3,000 different kinds of