Posted on 04/11/2022 5:26:11 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Californians may not know it on sight, but there’s going to be something different about their mosquitoes this summer. An invasive species of the bite-prone insects has been genetically modified in an attempt at controlling disease spread.
According to Smithsonian, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved plans by biotech firm Oxitec to release 2.4 billion male Aedes aegypti mosquitos in both California and Florida that have been altered so their genes can only participate in producing surviving male offspring. (Females will die before reaching adulthood.) The insects will be introduced as eggs, which will then hatch when exposed to water.
Because male mosquitoes do not bite, the theory is that a declining female mosquito population will reduce transmission of Zika, yellow fever, dengue, and other infectious diseases that can be passed on to humans from the bites. The goal is halting outbreaks before they begin.
In 2021, Oxitec released 144,000 genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. The insects have also been introduced in Brazil, the Cayman Islands, Panama, and India. While there is no spread of such diseases in California, the firm says a growing mosquito population could eventually pose a problem and that such pilot programs are necessary to assess effectiveness.
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Designed to bite liberals and make them sterile.
They should look into dragon flies.
Dragonflies can eat up to 100 mosquitoes/day
What could possibly go wrong?
They need to introduce great big ones to that female RAT skeeter population in Congress.
Skeeters got CONvid-19 vaxxes?
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Dragonflies are some fearsome looking critters… Look up a book called “Cold War in a country garden” sometime. An absolutely terrifying science-fiction story about what it would be like for a human to be miniaturized in the world of insects.
Written around 1971 or thereabouts… I still have a paperback copy of it. An absolutely brilliant and horrifying science-fiction story
Fauci likes making modifications to things.
Someone remind me how that is turning out.
Old news...
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Billions of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Are Set to Descend on California and Florida This Summer
04/11/2022 5:26:11 PM PDT · by RomanSoldier19 · 6 replies
smithsonian via msn ^ | 4/6/2022 | mental floss
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British-based Company Set to Release Billions of GM Mosquitoes in Two US States (California, Florida Keys)
03/24/2022 4:17:13 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 31 replies
dailyexpose.uk ^ | MARCH 24, 2022 | RHODA WILSON
Interesting. Plus dragon flies are beautiful. When I first moved to Spokane, we had them on the lawn, but 12 years later you never see one. My neighbor swears that they are cloud seeding with chemicals that kill things.
I have no clue. Do you?
What could go wrong?
Californians should be happy to know that they’re being genetically experimented on by the government.
What could go wrong?
Maybe these male mosquitoes will IDENTIFY as famales and bite people (this IS California, after all.)
“Dragonflies can eat up to 100 mosquitoes/day.”
Young frogs eat them, too. And some birds. But they are pikers compared to dragonflies.
They should bring back the giant (2 foot wide) dragonflies of the Carboniferous era.
Won’t be long time until we ALL find out.
Haha. Good one.
“Because male mosquitoes do not bite, the theory is that a declining female mosquito population will reduce transmission of Zika, yellow fever, dengue, and other infectious diseases that can be passed on to humans from the bites.”
Zika, dengue and yellow fever must be running wild in Florida and California.
Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito, is a mosquito that can spread dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika fever, Mayaro and yellow fever viruses.
I was unaware these diseases exist in the USA.
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