what is your opinion on genetically modifying mosquito genders, to control the mosquito population and contain

Question: what is your opinion on genetically modifying mosquito genders, to control the mosquito population and contain potential illnesses?
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Asked by anon-290518 on 23 Mar 2021.
- Jesko Koehnke answered on 23 Mar 2021:
  
  It is one of those things that sound like a great idea, and maybe it is. I just always hope that people doing this sort of work learned from the various “mishaps” that people with similar thinking have experienced. Bullfrogs in Australia is one example where it went wrong.
- Martin McCoustra answered on 24 Mar 2021:
  
  Seems like a sensible thing to do with the world getting warmer and the potential for the malaria parasite to spread.

Question: what is your opinion on genetically modifying mosquito genders, to control the mosquito population and contain potential illnesses?