Bill Gates is breeding 30 million bacteria-infected mosquitoes per week in a factory in Colombia and he is threatening to "scale and deliver" the mosquitos to "communities around the world." The Microsoft founder and self-appointed World Health Czar has spent $185 million so far in setting up the mosquito factory
The stated goal of the project is to use the mosquitos to target native mosquito populations that supposedly cause dengue, zika, and other viral infections in humans.
- Gates-who’s been lambasted by Indian Parliament for unethical “cervical cancer vaccine” trials- posted a video on his YouTube channel on how the WMP is breeding mosquitos purposefully infected with the bacteria Wolbachia and then releasing them “across the country to breed with wild mosquitos that can carry Dengue and other viruses threatening to sicken and kill the population.”
- The bacteria is found in 50% of all insect species on Earth and affects the ability for mosquitoes to reproduce, so the goal is to create a revamped community of mosquitoes replete with a bacterial infection in every single member.
Wolbachia and Dengue
- The CDC's numbers do not address two key points
- Amount of actual virus in the native mosquito population
- All-cause mortality
- There does not seem to be extensive study on the effects of the bacteria on human physiology
- Scientists still do not know the exact cause of infertility
- Recent studies have implicated the parasites, rather than the worm, as the cause of inflammatory filarial disease in humans
It's also possible that this technology could be (undoubtedly will be?) abused
- Even an accidental release could change an entire species.
- This would be especially problematic in regards to the use of so-called gene drives-or a type of genetic engineering technique that relies on CRISPR technology to modify genes so that they don't follow the typical rules of heredity.
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