Sigh, they're not "genetically modified". Spend a minute confirming you aren't spreading non-sense that makes us look like gullible and stupid people.
These are not genetically modified. They are regular mosquitoes that have been infected with the Gram-negative bacterium Wolbachia, which is a present in over 65% of insects, including other species of mosquitoes. It is harmless to humans.
This has two huge benefits:
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When male Ae. aegypti mosquitoes with Wolbachia mate with wild female mosquitoes that do not have Wolbachia, the eggs will not hatch.
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Wolbachia blocks the replication of a number of moquito carried illnesses and it also
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7281599/
Sidenote, I wouldn't personally do this, I'd use the sterile insect technique which uses radiation to sterilize male mosquitoes and then over successive cycles wipes out the population as any female a sterile male mates with does not produce offspring. This is the technique the use in the US to wipe out a certain type of fly that lays larvae in livestock and other mammals that used to be endemic in the southern US. It's still all over in South America, so to this day they continue to release sterilized males in a part of Panama to prevent northward migration.
The benefit of this is that it doesn't do anything to drive resistance in either the viruses or the mosquitos.
Sigh, they're not "genetically modified". Spend a minute confirming you aren't spreading non-sense that makes us look like gullible and stupid people.
These are not genetically modified. They are regular mosquitoes that have been infected with the Gram-negative bacterium Wolbachia, which is a present in over 65% of insects, including other species of mosquitoes. It is harmless to humans.
This has two huge benefits:
-
When male Ae. aegypti mosquitoes with Wolbachia mate with wild female mosquitoes that do not have Wolbachia, the eggs will not hatch.
-
Wolbachia blocks the replication of a number of moquito carried illnesses and it also
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7281599/
Sidenote, I wouldn't personally do this, I'd use the sterile insect technique which uses radiation to sterilize male mosquitoes. The benefit of this is that it doesn't do anything to drive resistance in either the viruses or the mosquitos.
Sigh, they're not "genetically modified". Spend a minute confirming you aren't spreading non-sense that makes us look like gullible and stupid people.
These are not genetically modified. They are regular mosquitoes that have been infected with the Gram-negative bacterium Wolbachia, which is a present in over 65% of insects, including other species of mosquitoes. It is harmless to humans.
This has two huge benefits:
-
When male Ae. aegypti mosquitoes with Wolbachia mate with wild female mosquitoes that do not have Wolbachia, the eggs will not hatch.
-
Wolbachia blocks the replication of a number of moquito carried illnesses and it also