Updated: Apr 27 2021, 7:28 ET
FLORIDA residents have blasted local pest control “TERRORISTS” over plans to unleash a BILLION mutant mosquitoes in the Keys.
The areas Mosquito Control District (FKMCD) are set to release the gene hacked ‘fraken-squitoes in a bid to fight insect-borne viruses like yellow fever.
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A BILLION mutant mosquitoes are set to be released in the Keys to fight insect-borne viruses like yellow feverCredit: GETTY
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Florida pest control chiefs have been branded “terrorists” over the plansCredit: GETTY
The trial is set to begin this week, seeing a first phase of up to 144,000 modified mosquitoes released over the next 12 weeks.
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Genetically Modified Mosquitos to Be Released in Florida Keys
In an effort to fight insect-borne viruses like Zika, dengue fever and malaria, genetically modified mosquitoes are set to be released in the Florida Keys.
U.K.-based biotechnology company Oxitec has partnered with the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District in an effort to control the invasive and disease-spreading female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in the region.
Oxitec s male mosquitoes which don t bite, unlike the recently-discovered yellow fever-carrying Aedes scapularis mosquitoes will be introduced in small areas in a select number of neighborhoods between mile markers 10 and 93 in the Keys.
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In an effort to fight insect-borneviruses like Zika, dengue fever and malaria, genetically modified mosquitoes are set to be released in the Florida Keys.
U.K.-basedbiotechnology company Oxitec has partnered with the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District in an effort to control the invasive and disease-spreading female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in the region.
Oxitec s male mosquitoes which don t bite, unlike the recently-discovered yellow fever-carrying Aedes scapularis mosquitoes will be introduced in small areas in a select number of neighborhoods between mile markers 10 and 93 in the Keys.