Posted on 01/25/2015 9:42:05 AM PST by Olog-hai
Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in the Florida Keys if British researchers win approval to use the bugs against two extremely painful viral diseases. Never before have insects with modified DNA come so close to being set loose in a residential U.S. neighborhood. [ ]
Dengue and chikungunya are growing threats in the U.S., but some people are more frightened at the thought of being bitten by a genetically modified organism. More than 130,000 signed a Change.org petition against the experiment. Even potential boosters say those responsible must do more to show that benefits outweigh the risks. [ ]
Mosquito controllers say theyre running out of options that can kill Aedes aegypti, a tiger-striped invader whose biting females spread these viruses. Climate change and globalization are spreading tropical diseases farther from the equator, and Key West, the southernmost U.S. city, is particularly vulnerable.
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Anyone who thinks global warming is real is too stupid to be trusted with genetically modified anything.... Request denied!
Even if they are, I'd like to know more about how they guarantee that.
I'm sure it has nothing to do with the neopagans taking vast areas of productive land and turning it into fetid swamps.
Sounds like a great way to control these diseases.
We need to figure out a similar program to control the population of American liberals (the human kind).
I think it is so sweet that our culture listens to the dumbest, craziest members of society. They need to be listened to. And it is good that we don’t listen to our brightest, and most conservative members, and in fact chastise them and ridicule them, and tax them.
We are truly an advances society.
Movies never tell you exactly how it happened; this is the stuff ZOMBIES are made of.../s
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