Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Florida residents fear millions of GMO mosquitoes will wreak havoc
According to a report from the website Sustainablepulse.com, GM mosquitoes are set to be released on Burkina Faso through the Target Malaria organization, which is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
This open release is acknowledged as having no benefits by the Gates Foundation, and is instead intended to “test the infrastructure and systems for a future release and for, as yet, experimental technologies, notably “gene drive” mosquitoes, as noted in this article from the Pulse.
The overall goal of the project is to eventually have an open release of gene drive GMO mosquitoes in hopes of reducing the population of a particular type of mosquito that can transmit the parasite that causes malaria; theoretically this would help reduce the incidence of the disease in Burkina Faso.
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