And Now: “Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Join The Fight To Stop Zika Virus”

January 28th, 2016

Here’s what happened in Brazil, where Oxitec has been conducting massive experiments with genetically modified mosquitoes.

The chart below is from, Zika Virus, Explained in 6 Charts and Maps:

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Also, from 2012: Brazil Rolls Out GM Mosquito Farms:

Brazil has opened its first-ever, large-scale genetically modified mosquito farm in an effort to reduce the incidence of dengue fever.

The mosquitoes are a genetically modified (GM) version of the Aedes aegypti, the species responsible for transmitting the dengue virus to humans. The farm was inaugurated early last week and is expected to produce millions of GM insects each month.

Scientists at the British-based Oxitec developed a method of shortening the lifespan of the mosquitoes and reducing mosquito populations by, essentially, sterilizing them. The mosquitoes are engineered to need the antibiotic tetracycline to develop beyond adolescence. Male mosquitoes in the laboratory are given the antibiotic to reach adulthood and then released into the wild to breed with wild females. The larvae, unable to access tetracycline, die before they are fully-grown. After a few days, both the offspring and the released males are dead.

The primary concern, de Mier said, was the uncertainty and lack of scientific data regarding potential the GM mosquitoes will pose long-term harm to Key West’s ecosystem and its inhabitants.

She and others who oppose the research also point out the potential risk of females being released along with the males, the possibility that the gene will mutate, and any unforeseen potential negative effects it might have on the area’s insects and wildlife.

Researchers, however, dismiss these concerns.

De Mier and her cohort in Key West aren’t the only skeptics. Earlier this year, Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology looked at information from Oxitec’s trials in Malaysia and Grand Cayman, and accused the company of having a lack of transparency. Its findings suggest “deficits in the scientific quality of regulatory documents and a general absence of accurate experimental descriptions available before releases start.”

In other words, Oxitec has been producing genetically modified mosquitoes on an industrial scale for years in Brazil, the country that now finds itself at ground zero of this Zika outbreak. With regard to Oxitec’s trials in Malaysia and Grand Cayman, Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology found, “Deficits in the scientific quality of regulatory documents and a general absence of accurate experimental descriptions available before releases start.”

These are fascinating coincidences.

And here’s one more: Bill Gates: GM Mosquito Trial Strains Ties in Gates-Funded Project:

Oxitec has received $5 million from the Gates program…

Update: In August 2015 Oxitec was purchased by U.S.-based Intrexon Corp in a deal valued at $160 million.

Update: Zika Virus Made Available to Researchers by Rockefeller Foundation in 1953

Via: NPR:

The rapid spread of the Zika virus has raised interest in a British company that has developed a genetically modified mosquito. Oxitec has produced a genetically engineered line of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the mosquito that carries dengue fever and chikungunya. Those tropical diseases have become common in Latin America and are now showing up in Florida.

The company breeds and releases into the wild male mosquitoes that don’t produce viable offspring. When females mate with the GMO males, they lay eggs that hatch but the larvae die before adulthood. Oxitec says trials conducted in Brazil and other countries over the past decade show releasing bioengineered male mosquitoes can reduce the wild Aedes aegypti population by 90 percent.

4 Responses to “And Now: “Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Join The Fight To Stop Zika Virus””

  1. djc says:

    I would have to say the GE mosquitos are the problem here. What a complete fuck-up, again, by our revered scientists, unless of course it was their intention… below is an extract from

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/zika-outbreak-epicenter-in-same-area-where-gm-mosquitoes-were-released-in-2015/5504486

    According to an unclassified document from the Trade and Agriculture Directorate Committee for Agriculture dated February 2015, Brazil is the third largest in “global antimicrobial consumption in food animal production” — meaning, Brazil is third in the world for its use of tetracycline in its food animals. As a study by the American Society of Agronomy, et. al., explained, “It is estimated that approximately 75% of antibiotics are not absorbed by animals and are excreted in waste.” One of the antibiotics (or antimicrobials) specifically named in that report for its environmental persistence is tetracycline.

    In fact, as a confidential internal Oxitec document divulged in 2012, that survival rate could be as high as 15% — even with low levels of tetracycline present. “Even small amounts of tetracycline can repress” the engineered lethality. Indeed, that 15% survival rate was described by Oxitec:

    “After a lot of testing and comparing experimental design, it was found that [researchers] had used a cat food to feed the [OX513A] larvae and this cat food contained chicken. It is known that tetracycline is routinely used to prevent infections in chickens, especially in the cheap, mass produced, chicken used for animal food. The chicken is heat-treated before being used, but this does not remove all the tetracycline. This meant that a small amount of tetracycline was being added from the food to the larvae and repressing the [designed] lethal system.”

    Even absent this tetracycline, as Steinbrecher explained, a “sub-population” of genetically-modified Aedes mosquitoes could theoretically develop and thrive, in theory, “capable of surviving and flourishing despite any further” releases of ‘pure’ GM mosquitoes which still have that gene intact. She added, “the effectiveness of the system also depends on the [genetically-designed] late onset of the lethality. If the time of onset is altered due to environmental conditions … then a 3-4% [survival rate] represents a much bigger problem…”

  2. mangrove says:

    After my extensive Ebolie research of a year+ ago, it’s pretty hard to believe ANY new fear-mongering virus story given the track record of the medical authorities. And this one appears no different from all the past scares. There’s no conspiracy here, folks, just get yer damn vaccine.

    Anyway, Jon Rappoport excels at this kind of research, and is already seeing lots of red flags right out of the gate. And he mentions “Rockefeller Medicine” (see excerpt below). Something I discovered in my Ebolie research was that Doctors Without Borders USA was formed in 1989 by Dr. Richard Rockefeller and David Rockefeller. And who were the two American doctors (Kent Brantly and Nancy WritEBOL) who were “cured of Ebola” working for? That’s right, Doctors Without Borders. Mmmm hmmm.

    Zika freakout: the hoax and the covert op continue
    https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/01/29/zika-freakout-the-hoax-and-the-covert-op-continue/

    . . . And as I keep stressing, the virus becomes the formidable cover story that conceals the truth.

    And don’t forget the Rio Olympic Games, coming up in August. There are multiple scenarios which could play out in front of a global television audience. Will Zika be pushed as some sort of worldwide pandemic? Will a Zika vaccine be magically “discovered” and rushed into production, in time to show (as an advertisement) lines of people dutifully trudging up to receive shots?

    Every fake epidemic is, in part, designed to create fear and induce blind compliance to medical and government dictates. The germ is positioned as the “tiny terrorist” in this stage play.

    In my first book, AIDS INC. (1988), I indicated that covert medical ops are the most dangerous, because they appear to be politically neutral, they fly under no flag, and they claim to forward only humanitarian aims. But in fact, modern “Rockefeller Medicine” is built as a vast partner in the Globalization of the planet. Its vision is a universal in-utero-to-cradle-to-grave system for the human race: every human walks a bleak lifelong path of disease-diagnosis after diagnosis, receiving toxic drugs and vaccines at every turn, which weaken his body and mind, and make him unable to consider what is happening outside his perimeter of suffering or resist political totalitarianism.

    Medical freedom means: the freedom to refuse medical care, and it’s based on knowledge of destructive effects. This freedom must win, against any odds.

    “Official science” is a contradiction in terms, and a grand illusion.

    + + + + +

    Just Get Your Damn Vaccines
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGVqXW_yPJk

  3. mangrove says:

    Apologies for the error above — Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol were with Samaritan’s Purse, not Doctors Without Borders. Stinky, nonetheless…. and Doctors Without Borders were definitely involved front and center in the hoax, IMO.

    https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/sites/usa/files/msf143061.pdf

  4. mangrove says:

    So I did a little further research and discovered that Samaritan’s Purse is headed by Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham which should be a red flag to anyone paying attention. Apparently Billy Graham has ties to David Rockefeller, so there’s the connection. No matter, just take yer damn vaccine.

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