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Billions of genetically modified male mosquitos will be released in California and Florida as a 'natural pest control' to stop the spread of diseases like Zika, yellow fever and Dengue
2022-03-11
[MAIL] Billions of genetically engineered male mosquitos will be released in California and Florida over the next two years, as part of a mission to kill off biting females.

Oxitec, based in Oxford UK, is a biological pest control development firm, that has produced the edited version of the flying insects to combat mosquito-borne diseases like Dengue, yellow fever and Zika.

Male Aedes aegypti mosquitos don't bite humans, but females do, and so the genetic modification causes females to die off soon after being born.

The project has been cleared by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the first wave is due to be released this year, although it isn't clear exactly when this will happen, as it requires state regulatory approval in Florida and California.

It isn't likely to be a problem in Florida, as the state played host to a trial last year that saw millions of the same type of Oxitec mosquitos released in the Florida Keys.
Posted by:Besoeker

#16  So who got the cash? Oxitec. Wonder who owns stock.
Posted by: Woodrow   2022-03-11 23:35  

#15  Did they get voter ID's?
Posted by: Slappy   2022-03-11 18:17  

#14  "“The EPA did not require peer review or basic preliminary caged trials in Florida and Texas and excluded adequate public comment by not posting relevant documents when they approved the trial,” said Jaydee Hanson, Policy Director for the International Center for Technology Assessment and Center for Food Safety." Gee, I wonder why.
Posted by: Dale   2022-03-11 12:39  

#13  "Millions of GMO mosquitoes funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are to be released in California and Florida, according to reports."
Posted by: Dale   2022-03-11 12:35  

#12  ^ Come on, I got 5 kids to feed.
Posted by: Dale   2022-03-11 12:11  

#11  I call dibs on Kuato.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-03-11 11:18  

#10  I dont think it is a coincidence that both of the cheap "alternative" covid therapeutics were anti-parasitics. I did a lot of research when the Zika outbreak occurred and we had the Olympics anyway in the heart of the hotzone. Recent data in 2019 noted that GM Mosquitos left behind genetic material. So genetic exchanges occur. My pet CT is that the covid outbreak occurred when GM mosquitos somehow contracted or were given covid tainted blood and they are the vector. No public data to support this other than GM mosquito experiments in China, but not Wuhan, publicly documented. Why GM Mosquitos? They are the perfect innoculator, weather you like it or not they will bite you and you will contract what they can give you, be it vaccine or virus, or a Mrna "code upgrade".
Posted by: jefe101   2022-03-11 10:48  

#9  “Ya see? This is what scientists should be doing. Using nature against other forms of nature that are inconvenient to man.”
-Hank Rutherford Hill

P. S.
Did they just assume the mosquitoes’ gender?
Posted by: Lowspark   2022-03-11 08:17  

#8  Like this?
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/disease/gates-funding-genetically-altered-mosquitoes/
Posted by: Unoper Lumumba9761   2022-03-11 08:12  

#7  If there's one species humans should intentionally remove from this planet it is the mosquito.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-03-11 08:09  

#6  Like what could go wrong?. With California perhaps anything. I wounder if Gates or Fauci (I believe he spelled his name incorrectly and should have been spelled Faux pas), are involved.
Posted by: Dale   2022-03-11 08:05  

#5  Thanks, B. Backup keyboard in effect
Posted by: Frank G   2022-03-11 07:40  

#4  ^ *SNORT*
Posted by: Frank G   2022-03-11 07:40  

#3  Male Aedes aegypti mosquitos don't bite humans, but females do, and so the

This science be sexist! Next yall be saying these moskitos are black in color?!
Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh   2022-03-11 07:32  

#2  Should be an issue of great concern. Look what a single "genetically modified" picnic ant did to Chicago.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-03-11 07:20  

#1  You never really hear about the Zika or West Nile virus anymore. Same thing going to happen to COVID. It will still be out there, it will only be an issue for the people who contract it or make money off it. The media has "don't say gay" and "Russia, Russia, Russia" on it's plate instead.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-03-11 07:20  

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