Hell yeah, Culicidae delenda est
i started talking to synthetic biologists 6 or 7 years ago, and they were almost all concerned there'd be a massive backlash once the press discovered gene drives. the whole field of study could be jeopardized. turns out... people *really* hate mosquitoes.https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/18/health/genetically-engineered-mosquitoes-gmo-florida-scn-wellness/index.html …
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A few of my neighbors in Jinja were geneticists working on this same sort of thing in Uganda! Incredibly interesting work. Big labs in Uganda & Congo working on mosquito sterility
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I had the same concern
but these synbio scientists found the perfect use case 
bravo 
only problem is that the mosquitoes are still coming back after a few years in parts of Brasil where it was tested 
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