Bill Gates-Funded Company Releases Genetically Modified Mosquitoes In US

Submitted by Epoch Times

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.”

The insects released by the biotechnology firm are all male, so they don’t bite. They’re expected to mate with the local biting female mosquitoes, and in doing so, they will pass on a lethal gene that will ensure their female offspring die before reaching maturity.

According to Quartz, areas including Malaysia, Brazil, the Cayman Islands, and Panama, where similar experiments have been carried out, have seen mosquito populations drop by as much as 90 percent.

The project has faced backlash from residents, who say their consent was not sought for the experiment.

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TheAssegai
TheAssegai

The project has faced backlash from residents, who say their consent was not sought for the experiment.

Don’t these ‘residents’ understand that we are all in this together, can’t they just submit and obey? Also, it is a great opportunity to see how a genetically modified mosquito affects a genetically modified human versus a non-injected human.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

This sounds like such a great idea I can’ believe we didn’t do it sooner. I plan on releasing twenty thousand rabid porcupines just outside of Newtown, Massachusetts next week.

Machinist
Machinist

I’d chip in for expenses if you’d drop a few in Roxbury as well.

Anonymous
Anonymous

“The project has faced backlash from residents, who say their consent was not sought for the experiment.”

when did they ever consent with you on anything, they never once did me, oh we will raise your property tax 50%, take it and like it, we have pensions to pay, oh ok, so I pay at $10,000 a year for government pensions, and I receive none.

A Dolphin Hiding
A Dolphin Hiding

Payback for loosened lockdown disobediance.

The Kraken wasn’t ready to be released yet, so they went with something smaller.

Auntie Kriest
Auntie Kriest

That’s most drole, Dolph.

NoName
NoName

This is getting a lot of air play from all the usual bought and paid for sources. See: genetic modification good. Bill Gates Foundation good. It’s the reverse of the old joke about how one aw shit wipes out ten attaboys. Take one attaboy (maybe) and beat it to death.

So, where did the Aedes aegypti mosquitos come from and as a result of what process? There’s missing pieces to the narrative which might reflect unkindly upon globohomo ideation.

Two if by sea. Three if from within thee.
Two if by sea. Three if from within thee.

That critter looks a lot like what’s called an “Asian tiger” in layman’s terms.
It’s purported to have been introduced in the 1980s tagging along on shipping vessels loaded with recapped tires ( remember when they were a hit?) into the port of Houston.
(I’m not making this up).
I noticed them in the panhandle of FL during that time and was perplexed why at the age of 30 I couldn’t hear the bugger. After doing a smidgen of research I’d come to learn it was an entirely new species in my area. I’ve hated them ever since.
I miss DDT.

Anonymous
Anonymous

The Asian tiger mosquitos came into Florida in the 80s and were actually competing with th aedes aegypti mosquitos pushing them out now they are coming back they are both in the same family so they look alike and breed in the same containers

Anonymous
Anonymous

Aedes aegypti are native tree hole mosquitos that adapted to our container trash

John Doe
John Doe

The mosquitos have been released, but that sucking sound is resonating from somewhere else. I believe its the sound made when a bank acct. prepares for a divorce proceeding.

Auntie Kriest
Auntie Kriest

Auntie awaits, with great anticipation, the near future release of genetically modified brain-eating amebas, Naegleria fowleri, in Red states i.e. central Florida, Texas and other deplorable locations, so that the B3RG* can see the results of the next frontier of experimental biological terror on the serfs.

Last one in is a rotten egg.

Edward
Edward

I wonder if that would work with liberals?

very old white guy
very old white guy

What could possibly go wrong. Well, about a million things that have not been thought through.

RedStateWarrior
RedStateWarrior

This can’t end well and I am surprised that Gov DeSantis allowed his state to be the guinea pig for this.

👻 (ghost)
👻 (ghost)

What could possibly go wrong?

Ken31
Ken31

Nothing that would hurt us.

Anonymous
Anonymous

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flash
flash

What about the millions of birds and bat species that depend on stable mosquitoe population for their food supply? Fools shouldn’t tinker with the food chain , but then again they are fools and fools always know best.

Anonymous
Anonymous

We have 79 other types of mosquitos way more abundant than the aegypti mosquitos such as psorophera pherox floodwaters mosquitos hatch off and eat you alive

Ken31
Ken31

They will all be unaffected because when they digest the mosquito it doesn’t matter what order the nucleotides are in.

Auntie Kriest
Auntie Kriest

Is this why maladies such as HIV and Marburg are not spread by mosquitoes, and others are e.g. malaria?

Anonymous
Anonymous

I work for the mosquito control north Florida district and this type of mosquito release happens commonly. They aren’t really gmo mosquitos more like sterile irradiated insects it’s called sti technique they make it so the males and females mate the males are sterile and the females then have nonviable eggs. All it will do is reduce population of aedes aegypti container breeding mosquitos which carry most diseases to humans because they leave containers out for them we still have 79 other types of mosquitos that are whooping our buts down here

Two if by sea. Three if from within thee.
Two if by sea. Three if from within thee.

Thx for weighing in

Ken31
Ken31

It is not new technology, except for now it is easier to do with crispr. No escaped fruit fly mutants have destroyed humanity….so far.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Yeah the rooms for irradiating the mosquitos is massive and so is the machine

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