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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DDT worked just fine. Gates is a leftie scumbag.
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.”
Key word........”Experiment”.
So happens that Ivermectin can be used for dengue fever, yellow fever, and the Zika virus.
Maybe climate modification.
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!
Maybe use DDT in the Keys instead.
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.
And..? I read till the jump to the website...sounds a bit “expermental” to me...why not use DDT?
Just what we need. Argh!
Well that’s no fun.
He shoots!!
HE SCORES!!!
apparently not. it would seem that we’d rather be screaming than informed.
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?
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Zombie Apocalypse
Golly. If only there was a cheap, effective, and relatively harmless chemical to wipe out mosquitoes. What could it be???
Damn Don’T......know
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