Posted on 05/07/2021 4:29:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Genetically modified mosquitoes have been released for the first time in the United States as part of an experiment to combat insect-borne diseases such as Dengue fever, yellow fever, and the Zika virus.
UK-based biotechnology firm Oxitec, which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said it released the mosquitoes in six locations in Monroe County’s Florida Keys: two on Cudjoe Key, one on Ramrod Key, and three on Vaca Key.
It’s part of an effort to help tackle a disease-transmitting invasive mosquito population—the Aedes aegypti mosquito species—that’s responsible for “virtually all mosquito-borne diseases transmitted to humans,” according to the company.
These mosquitoes make up about 4 percent of the mosquito population in the Keys, and transmit dengue, Zika, yellow fever, and other human diseases, as well as heartworm and other potentially deadly diseases to pets and other animals.
The experiment is in collaboration with the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD), and was approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and an independent advisory board.
Over the next 12 weeks, fewer than 12,000 mosquitoes are expected to emerge each week, for approximately 12 weeks. Untreated comparison sites will be monitored with mosquito traps on Key Colony Beach, Little Torch Key, and Summerland Key.
If successful, some 20 million additional genetically modified mosquitoes will be released later in the year.
“We really started looking at this about a decade ago, because we were in the middle of a dengue fever outbreak here in the Florida Keys,” FKMCD Executive Director Andrea Leal said during a video news conference. “So we’re just very excited to move forward with this partnership, working both with Oxitec and members of the community.”
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What will Bill Gates think of next?
Bees
And then we progress to the tiny drones in The Hunger Games. After that, we’re all f*cked.
How are they making money?
What could possibly go wrong?
Speaking of viruses, I just heard on Levin Biden intends to take the vaccine patents from the US drug companies and give it to his bosses in China. Anyone else hear this? And Trump gets impeached for making a freakin’ phone call.
Heh, interesting that human viruses are causing problems now, while years ago Gate’s inability to address his little operating sysgem caused millions in lost productivity due to........computer viruses.
Eff him and the horse he rode in on.
What could possibly go wrong?
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Sheesh!
That is enough to populate the average Florida backyard.
That bill gates..... That guy is beginning to think he’s God.. He needs to go...
“Fly, my pretties! Fly! Higher and higher! Ha HAH hA!!”
These overly wealthy people who are not very smart...want to mess with Mother Nature, thinking they have all the answers...money doesn’t make for long on brains.
People will be sacrificing their children to his pagan god image next, if the Dims don’t take all the children away first.
What could go wrong. Covid might be a walk in the park.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation = Exterminators
Can we genetically modify Gate$ to rid the World of Computer Viruses?
***A mosquito-delivery system for his crimes against humanity. ***
Maybe THIS is the “Mark of the Beast!”
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