Genetically Modified mosquitoes engineered to sabotage

[Jeffersons Ghost]

{b]Eugenicists & Bill Gates Unleash 'Flying Syringes' to 'Save' Humans from Disease
Bill Gates Funds GM Mosquitoes to Combat Dengue Fever

The man that mandates upon you crappy, yet invasive NSA backdoor software now brings you Genetically Modified mosquitoes...

An outdoor trial of mosquitoes genetically engineered to sabotage Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which spread dengue fever, has been declared a success by scientists in the field. The trial is first time genetically modified mosquitoes have been released in the wild. The strategy promises to provide a new weapon against dengue, a disease that infects 50 million people annually and kills 25,000. In the past year, dengue has reappeared in the US for the first time in 65 years, and in southern Europe. By the end of the six-month trial on a 16-hectare plot, populations of the native insects, which spread the dengue virus had plummeted. "It's a proof of principle, that it works," says Angela Harris of the Mosquito Control and Research Unit on the Caribbean island of Grand Cayman, where the trial took place. The MCRU conducted the trial with Oxitec, the company in Oxford, UK, that bred the GM mosquitoes.

http://redactednews.blogspot.com/2010/11/eugenicists-bill-gates-unleash-flying.html

[democrat_patriot]

1. Theres no way this can go wrong. Is there?

Nah, I'm sure it'll be fine.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. nothing to see here folks. Just move along and don't recommend this thread

[itsrobert]

4. Has the makings of a 1970's "B" movie

I hope we get to see a boob, here and there.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

8. The only "boob" is the one toying with spreading disease through misquotes

[Warpy]

6. There will be less food for fish that eat the larvae

and bats and birds that eat the mosquitoes, but knowing what I know about dengue, that might be a decent tradeoff.

The first time you get dengue, you just want to die. The second time you get it, you generally do. The mosquitoes that carry it are also active during the day, when people have to be out and working, so it's impossible to dodge using mosquito nets at night as they can for malaria.

If we managed to eradicate that one vector and with it the disease, I wouldn't mourn too much. The other varieties of mosquito would fill the food niche pretty quickly.

[tabatha]

2. He also want to dump GMO seeds

on poor unsuspecting African farmers.

[Ian David]

5. I bow before our new, insectoid overlords. n/t

[Cetacea]

7. .