Mosquitos
The experiment with GMO mosquitos being conducted in the Florida Keys is controversial, but are we being over-cautious? The project by UK biotech firm Oxitec aims to replicate its success in Brazil, where introducing a ‘self-limiting’ gene caused mosquito populations to fall by 95% in similar tests. Mosquito-borne diseases kill over a million people a year and climate change will increase habitats conducive to its spread. The concern is that there may be unintended consequences when we manipulate nature. But we are doing this already, using chemical pesticides that we know have harmful side-effects on human and ecological health.
— Wayne Visser
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