MALARIABLOGGING is an occasional InstaPundit feature from way back. Now there’s news of a possible genetic breakthrough against mosquitoes that carry malaria.

Question: If we could wipe ’em all out, should we? It would save a lot of lives — and prevent a huge amount of misery. On the other hand, lots of things eat mosquitoes, and they might die off if the mosquitoes did, though perhaps other, nonmalarial mosquitoes would just step in to fill the niche.

Meanwhile here’s yet another promising malaria vaccine candidate — but we’ve had rather a lot of those. And malaria may be making a comeback in Europe. Ugh. I wonder if it was the dreaded transmission via mail that caused this. . . .