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| China Experiments with Spreading Vaccines Through Mosquitoes |
| 2023-01-06 |
| [Breitbart] Chinese scientists are reportedly looking at a technique for using mosquito bites to distribute vaccines. The experiment was conducted on animals, but the possibilities for human exposure are obvious and ominous. The South China Morning Post (SCMP) on Wednesday quoted a paper from the Chinese Academy of Sciences that described a plan to send genetically-modified mosquitoes into the wild, where they would bite animals to trigger a “strong, long-lasting immune response.” The authors of the paper said their trials had been successful at making animal subjects more resistant to viral infections, most notably Zika, which was the big viral panic in the late 2010s before a certain other organism emerged from Wuhan, China, to rampage across the world. Zika is spread primarily by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, a wide-ranging pest that breeds in swamps around the world, including the United States. The Zika crisis was particularly acute in Brazil, where pregnant women feared a mosquito bite could lead to birth defects or miscarriage from the virus. Several proposals made over the past decade to fight Zika involved genetically modifying mosquitoes, usually with an eye toward neutering them and causing the populations to collapse as they stopped breeding. The Chinese researchers essentially combined Zika with another virus called Chaoyang or CYV, which thrives in mosquitoes but not in larger animals, producing a harmless hybrid virus that tricks the immune systems of animals into thinking they have been infected with Zika. The animals would then develop immunity to Zika and related viruses without ever actually suffering an infection. According to the paper cited by the SCMP, the team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences fed blood laced with the inert CYV-Zika hybrid to mosquitoes, which proceed to bite laboratory mice, passing the virus to them through the saliva. The mice developed useful antibodies that lasted for more than five months, allowing them to survive normally fatal doses of Zika virus injected by the research team. Also, the mice did not pass Zika back to “clean” mosquitoes that bit them after they were infected. “Each mouse was bitten up to three times by 30 different mosquitoes, to simulate natural conditions,” the SCMP noted. This exposure is roughly equivalent to the experience of a human playing tennis in Florida for half an hour on a summer afternoon. The Chinese team anticipated using their mosquito inoculation technique for “control of zoonotic diseases infecting domestic animals and humans,” as well as for “protection of endangered wildlife, such as ruffled grouse decreased by West Nile virus.” |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #6 So, Fauci took a "consultant" position? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2023-01-06 19:43 |
| #5 *cough* 'gain of function' *cough* |
| Posted by: magpie 2023-01-06 19:23 |
| #4 Sounds like WW2 Japanese germ warfare experimentation! |
| Posted by: borgboy 2023-01-06 18:41 |
| #3 " bitten up to three times by 30 different mosquitoes, to simulate natural conditions,” the SCMP noted. This exposure is roughly equivalent to the experience of a human playing tennis in Florida for half an hour on a summer afternoon" I knew there was a good reason to live in Wisconsin. |
| Posted by: James 2023-01-06 14:41 |
| #2 "Governments spin why it is ok to put NBC agents into your food, mosquitoes." |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-01-06 12:57 |
| #1 Could we please stop the funding for this stuff in a year or so when Mitch’s giveaway ends. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-01-06 12:13 |