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01 Mar 2024
Genetically modified mosquitoes released by Bill Gates are causing a surge in dengue fever cases in Brazil.

Da Nang fever surges 400% in Brazil after Bill Gates' back gene-editing mosquitoes are released. Am I reading that article? Well, he's a nice man. I'd like to give you a shot for a spike protein that makes your body produce a spike protein. And it's the audacity of it, you see. It has to be the audacity. Like, no malaria here until he releases malaria mosquitoes. I'm sorry? They, quote, go out and mate with the other mosquitoes so they can't carry malaria, but they've got malaria in some weird genetic experiment, and then we get malaria.

01 Mar 2024
Releasing genetically modified mosquitoes is a viable strategy to reduce dengue fever transmission.

But another is releasing genetically modified mosquitoes. A British company called Oxitec has created these mosquitoes by injecting a bacteria called Wolbachia into the eggs of these mosquitoes. Sure. This has a dual effect of And it disrupts the ability of these mosquitoes to reproduce. There's been promise shown in the pilot launches of the mosquitoes, like in Medellin, Colombia, where Axios reported that they saw, quote, dengue contagion reports dropped by up to 97% from 2022 to 2023.