From the “YCMTSU” files (You cannot make this shit up) – EPA approves releasing billions of mosquitoes after States that already released them report outbreaks of malaria not seen in 20 years

From here:

EPA Authorizes Release of 2 Billion More GMO Mosquitoes as Reports of Malaria Surface in States That Already Released Them • Children's Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org)

“Locally acquired malaria has been nonexistent in the U.S. for the last 20 years. But five such cases have recently been diagnosed — four in Florida and one in Texas — the only two states that have released genetically engineered mosquitoes.”

“In the U.S., Oxitec is marketing the insects as Oxitec Friendly mosquitoes, trying to put a non-threatening name on a reckless project that could quickly backfire.”

“In March 2022, the EPA granted Oxitec a two-year extension of its EUP, which would allow the biotech company to release additional GE mosquitoes in Florida as well as in four counties in California for the first time.”

“The EPA’s extension to Oxitec’s EUP paved the way for up to 2.45 billion GE mosquitoes to be released — an extension that was granted even before Oxitec had publicly released results from its 2021 field trial release in Florida.

The Gates Foundation is heavily invested in the GMO (genetically modified organism) mosquito project, investing more than $30 million in Oxitec. Most of it — more than $20 million — is aimed at U.S. regions.”

Not to worry, the mosquitoes have a “kill switch” – wait is that to kill humans?

More context here:

Mosquitoes spread malaria. With gene-editing, they could fight it instead : Goats and Soda : NPR

“But making mosquitoes uninviting to malaria is a tough job. The malaria parasite doesn't make mosquitoes sick, so mosquito immune systems don't fight it.

To get around the problem, the team used a gene-editing technique called CRISPR. They started with genes from mice, whose immune systems do fight human malaria.

"What we did then was engineer those [genes], and give them to the mosquitos," he says.

The results were published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Sure enough, the gene-edited mosquitos produced malaria-fighting antibodies.

Those antibodies "worked very well," says James. "They reduce the number of parasites in the mosquito, most importantly in the salivary gland, which is where they would be before they were transmitted to a human host."

And then of course, there is this from 2010:

Researchers Turn Mosquitoes Into Flying Vaccinators | Science | AAAS

“A group of Japanese researchers has developed a mosquito that spreads vaccine instead of disease. Even the researchers admit, however, that regulatory and ethical problems will prevent the critters from ever taking wing—at least for the delivery of human vaccines.”

Updated here:

What If We Used Mosquitoes To Vaccinate People? Japan Actually Did (indiatimes.com)

And circling back to the NPR article with another take here:

Researchers use mosquitoes on people to test new malaria vaccine (nypost.com)

“Scientists itching to develop a new malaria vaccine have turned to an unlikely method of injection — by using a box full of mosquitoes to vaccinate people, according to a report.

“We use the mosquitoes like they’re 1,000 small flying syringes,” Dr. Sean Murphy, a University of Washington physician, said in a recent paper in Science Translational Medicine discussing the trials.

One of the test subjects told NPR that she put her arm over a box that looked like “a Chinese food takeout container” and let herself get bit by at least 200 mosquitoes inside.

“My whole forearm swelled and blistered,” says Reid. “My family was laughing, asking like, ‘why are you subjecting yourself to this?'”

I can’t find an article that suggested that mRNA could be injected into people by mosquities but I am sure it is out there!

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