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EPA OKs plan to release 2.4 million more genetically modified mosquitoes
NBC News / Comcast ^ | March 11, 2022 | By Tim Fitzsimons

Posted on 03/12/2022 6:33:00 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

A British biotech firm this week got the green light from U.S. regulators to release over 2 million genetically modified mosquitoes in Florida and California as part of an expanded effort to combat transmission of diseases like Zika, dengue fever and canine heartworm.

The experimental public health effort, which still requires final approval from state regulators, follows the 2021 release of 144,000 genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys by British biotech firm Oxitec.

Oxitec said its genetically modified male, and thus non-biting, mosquitoes "find and mate with invasive female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, mediating a reduction of the target population as the female offspring of these encounters cannot survive," thus reducing the overall population.

In a news release announcing approval from the Environmental Protection Agency, Oxitec described its release in Florida in 2021 as a "success."

"Given the growing health threat this mosquito poses across the U.S., we’re working to make this technology available and accessible," Grey Frandsen, CEO of Oxitec said, adding that the company will now apply for approval from California and Florida regulators.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: gmo; mosquitoes
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1 posted on 03/12/2022 6:33:00 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wow, GMO mosquitos, what could go wrong?!?! Science!!!


2 posted on 03/12/2022 6:35:53 AM PST by BigJimSportCamper
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

guess these guys didn’t see Jurassic Park.


3 posted on 03/12/2022 6:36:01 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Never had problems with mosquitos in Florida where we have bats. Just put up a bat box, and no more mosquitos. Seriously.


4 posted on 03/12/2022 6:36:17 AM PST by D Rider ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

After all this effort, natural selection will take over and direct the progression of the genes, and all will have been to no avail.


5 posted on 03/12/2022 6:37:02 AM PST by I want the USA back (Government is to be feared much more than the chicom virus.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Then it’s genetically modified ants, what could possibly go wrong.
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6 posted on 03/12/2022 6:37:05 AM PST by The Louiswu (The times they are a changin. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
What could possibly go wrong?


7 posted on 03/12/2022 6:37:53 AM PST by Fresh Wind (We are living in 1984. We have always been living in 1984.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Seriously? The keys are full of libs but I would never wish yhis on anyone. This is a disaster waiting to happen. NOBODY has ever seen the movie “ The Food of the Gods”?


8 posted on 03/12/2022 6:38:53 AM PST by Ikeon (F.R has finally grown big enough, the idiots now have the numbers to make us all look stupid. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I have come to NOT “trust the science” where the government is concerned. Largely do to the fact that I do NOT trust the government.


9 posted on 03/12/2022 6:42:55 AM PST by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: The Louiswu

The good old 50’s -60’s SciFi movies.. when life was good !!


10 posted on 03/12/2022 6:43:25 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Mosquitoes are one of the few instances where I pray to God and ask “Why?”


11 posted on 03/12/2022 6:49:19 AM PST by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed with the clot-shot, the more evidence I see supporting my decision.)
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Pretty soon, folks down there will start driving on the left side of the road.


12 posted on 03/12/2022 6:52:25 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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Within a year——WHAT ARE BATS GOING TO EAT???


13 posted on 03/12/2022 6:55:52 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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Don’t EFF with Mother Nature.


14 posted on 03/12/2022 6:56:57 AM PST by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: upchuck

Bats will take care of mosquitoes-—

But RATTLESNAKES ?????


15 posted on 03/12/2022 6:59:41 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That many might be enough for one barracks when building in Nam.


16 posted on 03/12/2022 7:00:55 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: upchuck

Mosquitoes are one of the few instances where I pray to God and ask “Why?”

In the Old South, before air conditioning, people sat on the front porch, drinking something, while on a swing or a rocking chair for the faint breeze. If you walked by on the the street, you would see these people waving, and you would wave ‘hello’ back. Reality was, they were swatting mosquitoes.


17 posted on 03/12/2022 7:03:02 AM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“2.4 million”

That is the mosquito population of one backyard in Florida.

They are outnumbered by the trillions. The scientists will have to make them a super species of indestructible super breeders.


18 posted on 03/12/2022 7:05:42 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

GMO ‘skeeters could be a great bioweapon delivery system.


19 posted on 03/12/2022 7:13:33 AM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: BigJimSportCamper

20 posted on 03/12/2022 7:13:43 AM PST by ArcadeQuarters (Remember the 2020 backstabbers. No more RINOs ever!)
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