{"id":50639,"date":"2020-08-20T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/millions-of-genetically-modified-mosquitoes-to-be-released-in-florida\/"},"modified":"2020-08-20T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T17:47:00","slug":"millions-of-genetically-modified-mosquitoes-to-be-released-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/millions-of-genetically-modified-mosquitoes-to-be-released-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"#Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes to be released in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes to be released in Florida<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 20, 2020 |<\/span> 1:47pm <\/p>\n

\n A UK-based company\u2019s plan to purposefully release hundreds of millions of genetically modified mosquitoes into Florida may sound like a science<\/a>-fiction story, but it has received local authorities\u2019 blessing to become a reality.<\/p>\n

Insect-combatting tech company Oxitec has created a male mosquito modified so that all of its offspring die before hatching. The US-owned company has named it OX5034 and designed it as an alternative to spraying insecticides.<\/p>\n

A plan to release more than 750 million OX5034s into the Florida Keys received Environmental Protection Agency app<\/a>roval in May and got an unanimous go-ahead from seven Florida agencies in June, providing Oxitec with the Experimental Use Permit it needed to move forward. The project has been seeking approval for more than a decade, CNN reported.<\/p>\n

The modified mosquitoes will be released into Florida over a two-year period starting this summer. Beginning next summer, they will also be released in Harris County, Texas, Oxitec said in a May statement\u00a0following the EPA\u2019s approval.<\/p>\n

Area residents and environmental advocacy groups are horrified.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith all the urgent crises facing our nation and the state of Florida \u2014 the COVID-19 pandemic, racial injustice, climate change \u2014 the administration has used tax dollars and government resources for a \u2018Jurassic Park\u2019 experiment,\u201d Jaydee Hanson, policy director for the International Center for Technology<\/a> Assessment and Center for Food Safety, said in a Wednesday statement released by a group of concerned community members and environmental advocacy organizations denouncing the decision. \u201cWhat could possibly go wrong? We don\u2019t know, because EPA unlawfully refused to seriously analyze environmental risks, now without further review of the risks, the experiment can proceed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The altered insects were conceived after particularly bad outbreaks of mosquito-spread dengue fever in the Keys in 2009 and 2010. Desperate to control the situation, the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District reached out to Oxitec for solutions, and the company responded by proposing OX513A, a genetically modified male mosquito.<\/p>\n

Many Floridians were not in favor, and a Change.org petition against mutant mosquitoes quickly racked up over 100,000 signatures, with residents referring to the variant vermin as \u201csuperbugs\u201d and \u201crobo-Frankenstein\u201d mosquitos, CNN wrote.<\/p>\n

In response, Oxitec developed the now-approved OX5034, a 2.0 version of its original OX513A \u201cfriendly mosquito.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWinning the growing war against disease-spreading mosquitoes will require a new generation of safe, targeted and sustainable tools for governments and communities alike,\u201d Oxitec\u2019s CEO Grey Frandsen said in the May statement. \u201cOur aim is to empower governments and communities of all sizes to effectively and sustainably control these disease-spreading mosquitoes without harmful impact on the environment and without complex, costly operations. The potential for our technology to do so is unmatched, and this EPA approval will allow us to take the first steps toward making it available in the US.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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