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Driven to extinction? The ethics of eradicating mosquitoes with gene-drive technologies
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Mosquito-borne diseases represent a significant global disease Burden, and recent outbreaks of such diseases have led to calls to reduce mosquito populations. Furthermore, advances in 'gene-drive' technology have raised the prospect of eradicating certain species of mosquito via genetic modification. This technology has attracted a great deal of media attention, and the idea of using gene-drive technology to eradicate mosquitoes has been met with criticism in the public domain. In this paper,...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1136/medethics-2016-103462
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- Publisher:
- BMJ Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Medical Ethics Journal website
- Volume:
- 42
- Issue:
- 9
- Pages:
- 578-581
- Publication date:
- 2016-01-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-04-07
- DOI:
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1473-4257
- ISSN:
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0306-6800
- Source identifiers:
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623267
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- pubs:623267
- Deposit date:
- 2016-10-11
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- Copyright holder:
- Pugh, J
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from BMJ Publishing Group at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2016-103462
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