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17 Post author: ChristianKl 16 October 2014 11:53AM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 16 October 2014 08:05:06PM 0 points [-]

All are more difficult to target. Breeding a gazillion male rats that can't produce offspring is harder than raising corresponding number of mosquitos.

Comment author: Lumifer 16 October 2014 08:14:24PM 1 point [-]

All are more difficult to target.

Ignoring implementation difficulties, do you see any problems with a progression like that?

Comment author: ChristianKl 16 October 2014 09:18:16PM 5 points [-]

According to Wikipedia out of over 3,000 species of lice 3 are classified as human disease agents. I see no problem getting rid of those three species.

Bed bugs certainly have no business being in human rooms, but I don't know much about them. I won't miss them.

Cockroaches on the other hand don't harm humans. They might not look nice, but I don't see them as problems. As far as rats go, I don't think they have a place in human cities I would prefer a canalisation system designed in a way that rats don't have a place.

I don't have an issue with rats outside of human cities.