“Let him into your house, He’s
the solution, He fights dengue and won’t bite anyone, Protect your health, He’s the good mosquito”.
6-25-18 Oxford-based genetic engineering firm Oxitec has announced a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a new strain of mosquitoes to combat the spread of malaria.
The project will build on Oxitec’s successful deployment of a self-limiting mosquito strain designed to reduce the spread of dengue, Zika, and other diseases and apply the technology to Anopheles mosquitoes that spread malaria in endemic regions in the Americas, eastern Africa, and South Asia. A $4.1 million grant from the foundation will fund the development of a strain of Anopheles albimanus males with a self-limiting gene designed to ensure https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/gates-foundation-awards-4.1-million-for-mosquito-engineering
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in Brazil, Oxitec’s public engagement included a jingle claiming that Oxitec’s GM mosquitoes are “the solution” to dengue,117 “Let him into your house, He’s
the solution, He fights dengue and won’t bite anyone, Protect your health, He’s the good mosquito”. This did not allow for any debate about the efficacy of this approach, and implied that it was known to work, rather than that it was an experiment with potential risks. http://www.genewatch.org/uploads/f03c6d66a9b354535738483c1c3d49e4/Oxitec_failed_GM_mosquito_releases_worldwide_Forewarnings_for_Africa_and_the_Target_Malaria_project.pdf
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10-3-19 The scientist who first suggested developing gene drives in gene-editing, Harvard biologist Kevin Esvelt, has publicly warned that development of gene editing in conjunction with gene drive technologies has alarming potential to go awry. He notes how often CRISPR messes up and the likelihood of protective mutations arising, making even benign gene drives aggressive. He stresses,
“Just a few engineered organisms could irrevocably alter an ecosystem.”
Esvelt’s computer gene drive simulations calculated that a resulting edited gene “can spread to 99 percent of a population in as few as 10 generations, and persist for more than 200 generations.” This is very much what has now been demonstrated in the mosquito experiment in Brazil.
Notable is the fact that the Oxitec Brazil mosquito experiment was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In June, 2018 Oxitec announced a joint venture with the Gates Foundation, “to develop a new strain of Oxitec’s self-limiting Friendly™ Mosquitoes to combat a mosquito species that spreads malaria in the Western Hemisphere.” The Brazil results show the experiment is a catastrophic failure as the new strain is anything but self-limiting.
The Gates Foundation and Bill Gates have been backing development of the radical gene-editing technology and gene drive technology for more than a decade. Gates, a long-time advocate of eugenics, population control and of GMO, is a strong gene-editing promoter. In an article in the May/June 2018 magazine of the New York Council on Foreign Relations, Foreign Affairs, Gates hails gene editing technologies, explicitly CRISPR. In the article Gates argues that CRISPR and other gene-editing techniques should be used globally to meet growing demand for food and to improve disease prevention, particularly for malaria. In his article he adds, “there is reason to be optimistic that creating gene drives in malaria-spreading mosquitoes will not do much, if any, harm to the environment.”
Every bit as alarming as the failure of the Brazil gene-editing mosquito experiment is the fact that this technology is being spread with virtually no prior health or safety testing by truly independent government institutions. https://www.globalresearch.ca/gene-edited-catastrophe-brazil/5690917
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9-11-19
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