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Bill Gates-Funded Company Releases Genetically Modified Mosquitoes in US
The Epoch Times ^ | May 7, 2021 | Isabel Van Brugen

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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To: E. Pluribus Unum

DDT worked just fine. Gates is a leftie scumbag.


21 posted on 05/07/2021 4:56:05 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Here is the result. I found this amusing.

“Mosquito-Man”

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1678052/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2

“Down on his luck and unlikely hero, Jim Crawley is having the worst day of his miserable life. He decides to end it all and even fails at that. An improbable event changes everything and he becomes a half man/half creature.”


22 posted on 05/07/2021 4:56:31 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Key word........”Experiment”.


23 posted on 05/07/2021 5:02:54 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Best Giant Mosquito GIFs | Gfycat
24 posted on 05/07/2021 5:13:05 PM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Derelict at Large)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So happens that Ivermectin can be used for dengue fever, yellow fever, and the Zika virus.


25 posted on 05/07/2021 5:17:17 PM PDT by ClaytonForester
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Maybe climate modification.


26 posted on 05/07/2021 5:22:09 PM PDT by RossA
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

there was a time at FR where people would read beyond the article before saying a bunch of stupid snit.


27 posted on 05/07/2021 5:23:22 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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there was a time at FR where people would read beyond the article before saying a bunch of stupid snit.

Yeah!

Trust the feral government and its "scientific" agencies!

28 posted on 05/07/2021 5:26:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Anti-racism looks suspiciously like racism.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; 100American; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; ...
Gates just cannot help himself with his monstrous ideas.

Maybe use DDT in the Keys instead.

PING!

29 posted on 05/07/2021 5:28:12 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (GOP-free since 10/9/20)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No, I don’t trust GM mosquitoes from Bill Gates to only be up to what they are supposed to be doing.

That would be like a Bill Gates vaccine in the developing world being only about preventing disease.


30 posted on 05/07/2021 5:30:56 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: JohnBrowdie

And..? I read till the jump to the website...sounds a bit “expermental” to me...why not use DDT?


31 posted on 05/07/2021 5:31:08 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Just what we need. Argh!


32 posted on 05/07/2021 5:31:47 PM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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To: JohnBrowdie
there was a time at FR where people would read beyond the article before saying a bunch of stupid snit.

Well that’s no fun.

33 posted on 05/07/2021 5:32:12 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: noiseman
Well that’s no fun.

He shoots!!

HE SCORES!!!

34 posted on 05/07/2021 5:37:49 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: noiseman

apparently not. it would seem that we’d rather be screaming than informed.


35 posted on 05/07/2021 5:38:15 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
It is curious that the little buggers are being released in Florida.

Mosquitoes make such nice little vectors for the transmission of disease.

I wonder if this was in the plan, ya know, just in case the various other depopulation efforts did not hit their stride.

Genetically-modified to release DNA or mRNA spike proteins and geared to only go after the un-vaccinated?

36 posted on 05/07/2021 5:44:04 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
In Gates we trust.

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37 posted on 05/07/2021 6:05:56 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Zombie Apocalypse


38 posted on 05/07/2021 7:01:54 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Poor kids are just as bright, just as talented, as white kids." - Joe Biden Aug 8, 2019)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Golly. If only there was a cheap, effective, and relatively harmless chemical to wipe out mosquitoes. What could it be???


39 posted on 05/07/2021 7:04:49 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Organic Panic

Damn Don’T......know


40 posted on 05/07/2021 7:08:50 PM PDT by crosdaddy
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