PRIVATE ZONE – Local authorities in the Florida Keys gave approval Wednesday (19/08/2020) to release mosquitoes that have been genetically modified to prevent the spread of dengue hemorrhagic fever and other diseases.
Monroe County Mosquito Control District has signed up to the project, which will release about 750 million engineered mosquitoes to produce dead offspring.
The state of Florida and the United States Government have already given their approval, this will be the first time genetically modified mosquitoes have been released in the US, but some health officials and members of the public have questioned the safety of the plan.
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“With the urgent crises that our nation and state need to face, the Covid-19 pandemic, racial injustice, climate change, local governments are using taxes and government resources to conduct Jurassic Park experiments,” said Jaydee Hanson, policy director for Technology Assessment. and the Food Safety Center, USA, as quoted by the UPI.com page recently.
“Now that Monroe County Mosquito Control District has given final clearance, what could possibly go wrong? We don’t know, because [Lembaga Perlindungan Lingkungan] illegally refusing to seriously analyze environmental risk, now without further risk review, this experiment can continue, “he added.
The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District has considered this plan as a way to discourage breeding the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which spreads dengue hemorrhagic fever and other diseases.
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The new mosquitoes, engineered by the British company Oxitec, have been attempted to release in Brazil, studies by Oxitec and other scientists say the program has significantly reduced the population of this insect-borne disease.
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