In this article, Maggie Koerth-Baker discusses how new solutions to problems can cause pose new problems. She talks specifically about ways to deal with disease-spreading mosquitos. One solution which lowered the spread by 20 percent were nets. Nets prevent mosquitos from entering households through the windows. However, scientists observed that Malaria-spreading mosquitos, most of which feed at night, began adapting to nets by feeding at earlier times. Another example is how scientists are trying to implant the genes that fight off Malaria present in rats into mosquitoes themselves. That way, the mosquitos bodies would neutralize the disease before spreading it to humans. However, this could lead to a breed of mosquitoes that can't be controlled by today's techniques.
The author alludes to "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" to illustrate her point that new solutions may pose new problems and that the scientific community doesn't always take this into consideration.
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