MikeG
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According to Underground World News, GMO mosquitoes are spreading the Zika virus
BIOWEAPON! ZIKA VIRUS IS BEING SPREAD BY GMO MOSQUITOES FUNDED BY GATES!
http://undergroundworldnews.com/201...ing-spread-by-gmo-mosquitoes-funded-by-gates/
The actual story cited is from Entomology Today:
It says nothing about how the Oxitec mosquitos are responsible for spreading disease. In fact, it looks like the research, published last summer, was remarkably successful.
http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0003864#sec001
Of course that does not stop Underground World News from crafting its own narrative, a process that involves some interesting cherry picking.
If you look at the actual article cited, it is from a 2010 edition of Science and refers to a 2009 trial conducted by Oxitec in the Cayman Islands.
The Centre for Environment, Technology, and Development is an environmental group that is identified as such in the original Science article.
http://cetdem.org.my/wordpress/?page_id=56
Nothing in the article mentions spreading the Zika virus or anything else. The real point of disagreement has more to do with having public meetings on the release of genetically modified mosquitoes than the actual science.
A more balanced article on Oxitec and the Gates foundation is in Nature Biotechnology.
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v29/n1/full/nbt0111-9a.html
The World Health Organization guidelines mentioned in the Science article were published in 2014.
http://www.who.int/tdr/publications/year/2014/guide-fmrk-gm-mosquit/en/
BIOWEAPON! ZIKA VIRUS IS BEING SPREAD BY GMO MOSQUITOES FUNDED BY GATES!
http://undergroundworldnews.com/201...ing-spread-by-gmo-mosquitoes-funded-by-gates/
The actual story cited is from Entomology Today:
http://entomologytoday.org/2015/07/...d-mosquitoes-reduce-population-by-95-percent/The results of a trial of genetically engineered mosquitoes intended to reduce their ability to transmit dengue fever have been published in the journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
The mosquitoes, commonly known as “Friendly Aedes aegypti” mosqitoes in Brazil where the trial took place, were developed by a company called Oxitec.
The results of the trial showed that the numbers of the mosquito (Aedes aegypti) that spreads dengue fever, yellow fever, chikungunya, and zika virus were reduced by more than 90%.
“The fact that the number of Aedes aegypti adults were reduced by 95% in the treatment area confirms that the Oxitec mosquito does what it is supposed to, and that is to get rid of mosquitoes,” said Dr. Andrew McKemey, head of field operations at Oxitec.
It says nothing about how the Oxitec mosquitos are responsible for spreading disease. In fact, it looks like the research, published last summer, was remarkably successful.
http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0003864#sec001
Of course that does not stop Underground World News from crafting its own narrative, a process that involves some interesting cherry picking.
http://news.sciencemag.org/2010/11/gm-mosquito-trial-strains-ties-gates-funded-projectBut scientists have warned the study had too few controls in place to ensure that the mosquitoes released into the wild did not end up spreading dengue fever, yellow fever, chikungunya, and zika virus.
In short, these genetically modified mosquitoes could be the cause of the Zika virus outbreak in Brazil and other parts of South and Central America.
“If these mosquitoes are completely safe, then why the hush-hush?” says Gurmit Singh, chair of the Centre for Environment, Technology and Development in Malaysia, another country slated for an Oxitec field trial.
If you look at the actual article cited, it is from a 2010 edition of Science and refers to a 2009 trial conducted by Oxitec in the Cayman Islands.
The Centre for Environment, Technology, and Development is an environmental group that is identified as such in the original Science article.
http://cetdem.org.my/wordpress/?page_id=56
Nothing in the article mentions spreading the Zika virus or anything else. The real point of disagreement has more to do with having public meetings on the release of genetically modified mosquitoes than the actual science.
A more balanced article on Oxitec and the Gates foundation is in Nature Biotechnology.
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v29/n1/full/nbt0111-9a.html
The World Health Organization guidelines mentioned in the Science article were published in 2014.
http://www.who.int/tdr/publications/year/2014/guide-fmrk-gm-mosquit/en/