There is a saying: “If you add to the truth, you subtract from it”. It is well known that Malaria is transmitted through a mosquito bite. But not all mosquitoes. These are specific mosquitoes that breed in clean stagnant water, like water stagnated on concrete slabs for curing cement, water stored in tanks and drums at construction sites and roof tops, etc. Even then the mosquito alone cannot transmit the disease, it needs to feed on a person already infected with malaria and then bite others. Similarly mosquitoes that transmit Yellow fever and Dengue breed in clean water. The mosquitoes transmitting Filariasis and encephalitis breed mainly in organically polluted water; these are the mosquitoes found breeding in septic tanks, flooded latrines, blocked drains and other heavily polluted water, including rice fields. But all the same mosquitoes are just vectors that transmit the disease from one person/animal to the humans acting as the intermediary host. It is true that frogs eat mosquitoes; but where are the frogs? In the cities? At construction sites? In septic tanks? Why this false reasons for increase in mosquitoes due to “Frog hunting”? Frogs may devour mosquitoes in hundreds but in a single night dragon flies, night hawks, bats devour mosquitoes in thousands. So, do not try to strengthen your cause by falsifying, when the actual causes of increase in mosquitoes & their transmitted diseases are: unabated constructions, stagnant drains and flooded septic tank, garbage spread all over, etc. and above all infected migrant labourers. Check this site for more info http://eau.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/11/1/159.pdf Everything on this earth is for human use. Humans should first thrive to protect Humans rather than animals like dogs, frogs, etc. Only those who feel they cannot do something good for his fellow human being, I think should see a shrink. Frogs breed everywhere in the tropics, including forest. And I do not see a threat of extinction to frogs; unless ofcourse; the forests have become extinct.
Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão. _________________________________________________________________ No Harvard, No Oxford. We are here. Find out !! http://ss1.richmedia.in/recurl.asp?pid=500
