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Posted on 05/29/2026 7:12:07 PM PDT by Red Badger
A growing number of experts are raising the alarm over billionaire Bill Gates’s extensive involvement in genetically modified mosquito projects after it emerged that the Microsoft co-founder has released hundreds of millions of bacteria-infested mosquitoes into the wild in Colombia.
The revelation is drawing renewed scrutiny to Gates’s other mosquito-based biological interventions around the world, with scientists warning that the long-term consequences remain largely unknown.
The concerns intensified after the government of Burkina Faso terminated the controversial Target Malaria project last year, citing biosafety risks, questionable effectiveness, and concerns over scientific sovereignty.
The project had received significant funding from the Gates Foundation and Open Philanthropy and allegedly sought to use genetically modified mosquitoes as a tool to combat malaria.
The decision marked a major setback for one of the world’s most ambitious genetic engineering programs involving insect populations.
Burkina Faso Pulls Plug on Gates-Backed Mosquito Project
Target Malaria launched operations in Burkina Faso in 2012 as part of a broader international effort to deploy gene-editing technologies against malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
In August 2025, Burkina Faso’s government ordered an immediate halt to all project activities and directed that remaining mosquito samples be destroyed.
Officials cited public health concerns, environmental risks, and a desire to maintain national control over scientific research conducted within the country.
Target Malaria’s work focused on genetically altering mosquito populations, including the development of so-called “gene drives” designed to spread engineered traits through wild mosquito populations.
Critics have warned that once released into the environment, such modifications could be impossible to reverse.
The Gates Foundation has invested tens of millions of dollars into the initiative, including grants supporting research facilities and field trials across multiple African nations.
Global Network of Mosquito Experiments Expands
Target Malaria is only one part of a much broader network of Gates-funded mosquito projects.
The Foundation has also funded research involving Oxitec, a biotechnology company known for releasing genetically modified mosquitoes in various regions around the world.
According to reports, Gates-backed initiatives have targeted mosquito species associated with diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, Zika virus, yellow fever, and chikungunya.
In addition, the Gates Foundation has supported efforts involving mosquitoes carrying Wolbachia bacteria, a strategy promoted through the Australia-based World Mosquito Programme.
Rather than genetically modifying the mosquitoes themselves, these programs breed mosquitoes carrying the bacteria and release them into the wild with the goal of spreading the organism through local mosquito populations.
Millions of Modified Mosquitoes Released Every Week
One of the largest ongoing projects is located in Colombia.
According to reports, approximately 30 million Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes are being released every single week as part of a large-scale program supported by the Gates Foundation and the World Mosquito Programme.
The initiative began years ago and has expanded significantly, with supporters claiming the bacteria can reduce transmission of diseases such as dengue fever.
Critics, however, argue that the public is effectively participating in a biological experiment without meaningful informed consent and that the long-term ecological consequences remain uncertain.
Questions Raised Over Dual-Use Biological Research
The controversy extends beyond mosquito control itself.
For years, scientists and academics have been discussing the risks associated with dual-use biological technologies.
This type of scientific research may have legitimate public-health applications, but it could also be misused for harmful purposes.
Various mosquito-borne diseases targeted by these projects, including dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya, and Zika, have been identified in biodefense and biosecurity discussions as pathogens of concern.
Critics argue that the increasing ability to genetically manipulate organisms raises important questions about oversight, transparency, and potential unintended consequences.
Critics Demand Greater Transparency
As governments, universities, private foundations, and biotechnology firms continue expanding mosquito-based intervention programs across multiple continents, critics are calling for far greater public scrutiny.
They argue that projects involving genetic modification, biological manipulation, and large-scale environmental releases should be subject to extensive public debate rather than being driven primarily by unelected global institutions and billionaire-funded organizations.
With millions of modified or bacteria-carrying mosquitoes already being released into communities around the world, opponents warn that society may not fully understand the consequences until years after the experiments have already reshaped natural ecosystems.
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Should billionaires be regulated as to how they spend their money? First up, they should not be allowed to spend it on anything political or politicians.
“I hacked it at the assembly level to support more....”
Kool, I used to work with Assembly for early real-time microprocessor control systems [a number of years after the times when my roommates worked with Bob Frankston at IDC before he hooked up with Bricklin...].
Finally in ~1992, [after having used Lotus 123 @ work], I bought a home PC with Excel, the killer, ripped-off, M$ App.
Many decades later, I use [some version of some sort of] Open
Office Calc daily.
Many trees and hours have been saved, in at least my case.
In many ways, it’s been a long, strange trip...
They did a similar thing in Hawaii and here in Florida two counties over from here.
They released millions of sterile mosquitoes that would mate with native mosquitoes and produce no offspring.
I think the technology came from Singapore.............
But no. Now we have this:
BILL GATES:. Let's try bacteria infected mosquitoes on some Colombian chumps. If that doesn't get out of its Colombian box and kill off a few billion people, we can try some genetically modified mosquitoes down there next.
That would be unconstitutional. Supremes have ruled that money is ‘speech’.................
Gates and Fouci should be locked up together and experimented on with all the crap they have done to others!
> I hacked it at the assembly level to support more. I wrote a DOS TSR …
Ah, memories… TSRs were the lifeblood of us early DOS IT guys. I wrote a bunch of ‘em back in the day…
AmiPro was my favorite...
This guy is basically the new Dr. Mengele (or was that Fauci?) conducting experiments on humans without a care in the world for the consequences.
Did it work with no side effects?
Herr MengeleGates should be hanged..
well at least they tested this all on Hawaii and Florida before doing it to Columbia and Africa
/s
maybe.... maybe....
thanks
Apparently it did. It worked in Hawaii, and then in Bay County Florida (That’s Panama City and environs)...............
A long time ago I went through all of my 5-1/4” floppies and archived them (and I still have the floppies, and an old tower PC that can read them). I wonder if I still have it somewhere.
The fonts were HP PCL soft fonts, because we had a LaserJet II.
Pasco County, not Bay.............. Also done in Lee and Collier counties.
That must have been decades ago.
Now the procedure is that you go to a pharmacy, get a couple of the test kits and the cure. Costs about eight bucks.
You test yourself before and after you return to the states. If you show positive you take the pills. Used to be three now is just one I believe. Over and done.
The vaccine and the preventative have some really bad side effects so instead you just tested and treated.
Two years ago..................
GATES FATHER DEEPLY BELIEVED THAT THE EARTH IS OVER POPULATED & WAS WILLING TO DO ALMOST ANYTHING TO DRASTICALLY REDUCE THE POPULATION. HE INSTALLED THAT SAME IDEA INTO BILL.
I DO NOT TRUST GATES ON ANY TOPIC.
Me either. His Malthusian father was mistaken. Our current population is about 8.3 Billion people. The earth could easily support 40 billion people.................
“I don’t trust Bill Gates”
I do, he has not done anything unexpected for as long as I have known him.
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