Aug 11, 2020
The South Florida/Keys mosquito control board is planning to vote on August 18th to allow for the release of 500,000,000 genetically modified mosquitoes as a mosquito abatement campaign.
The stated purpose of the release is to reduce the population of a small subset of natural mosquitoes by causing their female larvae to die. But based on past releases of mosquitoes by the same company, Oxitec, their technology probably won’t work at all.
Furthermore, even though Oxitec claimed that its mosquitoes would simply die out after the experiment was over, studies proved them wrong. They permanently altered the genetic makeup of natural mosquitoes, which could have serious consequences for health and the environment.
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