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Not a case, V, but I can speak from personal experience.

A lot of the HFCS used in foods comes from genetically modified corn. Once I stripped it out of my diet, and the diets of my children, our health improved substantially.

FTR, ate healthy to begin with. Lots of vegetables, salads, baked chicken; not a lot of sweets. I'm 5'8 and weight 125 lbs. Don't drink (not even beer or wine) or do drugs.

It's used in a ton of foods. Ketchup, jelly (kids loved PB&Js), boxed juices for lunches, etc. Was amazed to see it everywhere. Took a while to weed it all out and find replacements.

Also, any sweets or treats my family wants now I bake from scratch.

Conclusive proof? No, I admit. But if you saw how ill I was last year versus the person I am today, you would be surprised.

I'll accept your anecdotal evidence. You do, of course, know that there are millions of ways to genetically modify plants, don't you? The hybrid varieties of cereal crops we have been eating way back since Norman Borlaug introduced them more than a half century ago are a form of genetic modification. They have turned countries on both sides of the globe from being on the verge of starvation to actually, in some cases, exporting grain.

The new GM varieties simply take hybridization a step further with gene splicing and other techniques.

Naturally, they are not always going to work as intended as your experience shows. Certain techniques or combinations such as your experience shows may be downright unhealthy.

But the solution is not to ban all GM food just as the solution to a small number of peanut allergies is not to ban all peanuts. The solution is to find non harmful combinations and move forward cautiously.

The mosquito modification in the topic would probably best be tested in a closed environment such as a greenhouse or an isolated area of arctic tundra over a season before it is released into the general environment.