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    ‘Jurassic Park experiment’: 750 million genetically engineered mosquitoes to be released in Florida
    James Crump
    The IndependentAugust 20, 2020, 8:28 AM CDT
    A male and a female Aedes aegypti mosquitos are seen through a microscope at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation laboratory in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 14 August 2019
    A male and a female Aedes aegypti mosquitos are seen through a microscope at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation laboratory in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 14 August 2019
    US authorities have approved a plan to release more than 750 million genetically modified mosquitoes across the Florida Keys, despite objections from local residents.

    British-based firm Oxitec are behind the project, that will test whether the altered mosquitoes can work as an alternative to pesticides to control the spread of diseases, such as Zika, dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever, according to CNN.

    The male mosquito, which is named OX5034, has been created to produce female offspring that die at larval stage, before they grow big enough to spread disease and bite.

    Female mosquitoes bite for blood while they mature their eggs, but males do not carry the diseases as they feed on nectar, according to Sky News.

    The mosquitoes will only be released in the Florida Keys in 2020, but will be expanded into Harris County, Texas in 2021, after the Environmental Protection Agency granted Oxitec’s request for an experimental use permit.

    Jaydee Hanson, policy director for the International Centre for Technology Assessment and Centre for Food Safety, released a statement on Thursday, where he criticised the decision.

    “With all the urgent crises facing our nation and the State of Florida — the Covid-19 pandemic, racial injustice, climate change — the administration has used tax dollars and government resources for a Jurassic Park experiment,” he said.

    “Now the Monroe County Mosquito Control District has given the final permission needed. What could possibly go wrong? We don’t know, because EPA unlawfully refused to seriously analyse environmental risks, now without further review of the risks, the experiment can proceed,” Mr Hanson added.

    Zika was declared an international emergency in 2016, and although it was later downgraded, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said it was still a “significant public health challenge requiring intense action” later that year.

    While the WHO record around 390 million dengue infections each year, as half of the world’s population are at danger of being infected, according to Sky.

    This project will be the first of its kind in the US, but follows on from a similar trial in Brazil in 2016, where researchers recorded a decline in disease-carrying mosquitoes and found they did not cause harm to other insects.

    Since the initial announcement of the project in May, more than 240,000 residents in the Florida Keys have signed a petition against the proposal, which was supported by more than 30 local physicians.

    Local media reported that residents were unhappy to be treated as “guinea pigs” for the experiment, as the petition claimed that the “GMO (genetically modified organisms) mosquitoes could pose major risks to fragile ecosystems.”

    This argument was echoed by Dana Perls, a programme manager at Friends of the Earth, who released a statement on Wednesday where she said she was concerned about the damage the mosquitoes may cause to the local ecosystem

    “The release of genetically engineered mosquitoes will needlessly put Floridians, the environment and endangered species at risk in the midst of a pandemic,” Ms Perls said.

    However, in a statement on Wednesday, Oxitec chief executive Mark Carnegie-Brown claimed that the programme will be beneficial to the area and said the company plan on working with local authorities during the project.

    “We’re looking forward to working hand-in-hand with the Keys community to demonstrate the effectiveness of our safe, sustainable technology in light of the growing challenges controlling this disease-spreading mosquito.”
    I do not like this plan. 9 times out of 10 when man tries to fudge like this with NATURE it comes back to bite us in the ass....-Tyr
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    Don't you trust the scientist or the British to treat foreign nations well?
    It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. The freeman of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. James Madison
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    I dont like it either....









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    Quote Originally Posted by revelarts View Post
    Don't you trust the scientist or the British to treat foreign nations well?
    Too many past experiences of man's attempt to thwart Mother Nature and in so doing create an even worse problem.
    As I was taught at a young age," the road to Hell is paved with good intentions."
    When man tries to play--GOD-- it never works out as planned..-Tyr
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    I've been in the midst of swarms of mosquitoes that turned the sky black and you literally couldn't breathe without some kind of filter.

    100% Deet bug dope just turned them on. It was brutal every time.

    I'm all for eradicating the vicious little bastards.

    Besides, anything that 'Friends of the Earth' or any other such marxist organizations are against, I'm for.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tyr-Ziu Saxnot View Post
    I do not like this plan. 9 times out of 10 when man tries to fudge like this with NATURE it comes back to bite us in the ass....-Tyr
    Quote Originally Posted by revelarts View Post
    Don't you trust the scientist or the British to treat foreign nations well?
    What could go wrong? Brought to you by the creators of COVID-19
    “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gunny View Post
    What could go wrong? Brought to you by the creators of COVID-19
    Yep. With the Covid lying bustards, what the hell could go wrong.??? --Tyr
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tyr-Ziu Saxnot View Post
    Yep. With the Covid lying bustards, what the hell could go wrong.??? --Tyr
    I'll say this: I've lived in Monroe, Dade and Duval counties on FL. Monroe is the FL Keys and Dade is Miami/Everglades. I've seen some bigass mosquitoes

    It IS a problem. They used to roll a fogger truck around base housing in Key West (with all us kids chasing behind - the 60s). They'd wait for us at the bus stop in Miami and you just got swarmed. Our patios were enclosed with aluminum frames and mosquito screens (called a Florida Room).

    With all that, I don't see that it's the Federal government's business. As noted, they have a lot bigger issues to deal with they aren't. Money being one and this being a waste of it. We deal with mosquitoes here and they just wait until you're done spraying and come get your ass anyway.

    Not sure this is worth what could go wrong. Like covid. What if these genetically engineered mosquitoes carry some other bullshit? Not like they aren't going to mutate.
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    I can only imagine what kind of horror and disease might be brought forth from an engineered mosquito.

    I'd rather one of these myself...

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