Concerns Are Raised About Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes

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ANDREW POLLACK
NY Times
October 31, 2011

These mosquitoes are genetically engineered to kill — their own children.

Researchers on Sunday reported initial signs of success from the first release into the environment of mosquitoes engineered to pass a lethal gene to their offspring, killing them before they reach adulthood.

The results, and other work elsewhere, could herald an age in which genetically modified insects will be used to help control agricultural pests and insect-borne diseases like dengue fever and malaria.

But the research is arousing concern about possible unintended effects on public health and the environment, because once genetically modified insects are released, they cannot be recalled.

Authorities in the Florida Keys, which in 2009 experienced its first cases of dengue fever in decades, hope to conduct an open-air test of the modified mosquitoes as early as December, pending approval from the Agriculture Department.

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  1. Oh what the ……..

    They have NON VIABLE offspring….That is the point.

    Every female fertilized by one of these males HAS NO VIABLE LARVAE.

    What effect can there be.

    They don’t NEED to be recalled BECAUSE THEY ALL DIE, New batches have to be constantly created and released.

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