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.
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Wow, GMO mosquitos, what could go wrong?!?! Science!!!
guess these guys didn’t see Jurassic Park.
Never had problems with mosquitos in Florida where we have bats. Just put up a bat box, and no more mosquitos. Seriously.
After all this effort, natural selection will take over and direct the progression of the genes, and all will have been to no avail.
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”?
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.
The good old 50’s -60’s SciFi movies.. when life was good !!
Mosquitoes are one of the few instances where I pray to God and ask “Why?”
Pretty soon, folks down there will start driving on the left side of the road.
Within a year——WHAT ARE BATS GOING TO EAT???
Don’t EFF with Mother Nature.
Bats will take care of mosquitoes-—
But RATTLESNAKES ?????
That many might be enough for one barracks when building in Nam.
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.
“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.
GMO ‘skeeters could be a great bioweapon delivery system.
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