In recent times, the United States has been very unpeaceful, in addition to the lingering cloud of the epidemic, the outbreak of supply chain crisis, the labor shortage has worsened, and the US government is pulling with Congress for the $1.75 trillion infrastructure bill. Yet, at a time when the whole united States is in a state of turmoil, a group of lawyers are concerned about mosquitoes.
Recently, Bloomberg released a message showing great concern about Oxitec's genetically modified mosquitoes. The simple reason is that more and more Americans have strongly questioned the company's intentions.
The company's plan to release genetically modified variant mosquitoes in the United States was officially approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last year and approved by Florida officials in August this year. They will quietly release about 750 million genetically modified mosquitoes in a pilot project in Florida, but whether these mosquitoes will benefit human angels or become demons that harm the world has been debated.
Oxitec, a biological company, has been working on genetically modified mosquitoes. The principle is that the genetically modified male Aedes aegypti mosquito bred by the company is hybridized with the wild female Aedes mosquito, and the female offspring born will die before they mature. Over time, fewer female mosquitoes will bite, reducing the Aedes aegypti population. Because of the large number of pathogens carried by mosquitoes such as Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, dengue fever, Zika, yellow fever, malaria and other diseases are transmitted through this mosquito, affecting nearly half of the world's population.
It looks very good, but judging from the results of previous experiments, it is a mixed reputation. And genetic technology has always been called "God's hand", this company wants to play the creator, but the strength allows? Will human control be counterproductive in nature? For example, in the short term, these harmful mosquitoes have been suppressed, but in the long run, it is difficult to predict what results these mutated genes will lead to.
In fact, as early as a decade ago, the company did experiments in "third world" countries such as Brazil and Malaysia. They released the first generation of genetically modified male mosquitoes in these countries and regions, accumulating more than 1 billion, and according to the company's data, the number of wild Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in Brazil has dropped by 80 to 95%.
But there are indications that the experiment has not been as successful as the company claims. Some scientists have found that the company has created a super-strong mosquito that cannot even kill insecticides; and the Yale university team has also published a paper arguing that the female offspring of genetically modified male mosquitoes and wild female mosquitoes are not only fertile, but also numerous, and the number of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes has not dropped significantly. Oxitec then strongly opposed it, so it was not resolved.
And the company's hasty experiments with mosquitoes without a comprehensive assessment of the environment and human health have raised concerns about a lack of independent scrutiny and conflicts of interest.
Even more worrisome is the identity of the company, which, although it is a British company, is a former U.S. Navy adviser and a member of the International Crisis Group of financial tycoon Soros. And the project was funded by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is seen by the outside world as the "Crazy Science Department", which mainly conducts various avant-garde or crazy scientific experiments.
Moreover, the U.S. Department of Defense has long cooperated with the Program Bureau to secretly study the effects of various insect-borne viruses. According to the declassified report, the biological department in the United States can kill 625,000 people at a cost of only $0.29, which is a madman. While most of the plans for the U.S. military and private companies to collaborate on deadly insect weapons are secretive, according to limited clues, the bureau is undoubtedly the largest investor in global genetic research, and since 2016, it has spent $100 million on genetic extinction technology.
Throw down a hundred million dollars and risk being blamed just to get rid of mosquitoes? It is not that it is impossible, but according to the consistent style of the United States, the probability is really not high. And many international experts have questioned that the genetically modified mosquitoes in the United States may belong to the secret project of insect warfare, and once this experiment is carried out, it is like opening Pandora's box. The American experiment is intended to be global.
And although the United States has always claimed to be a beacon of human rights, it must not be deceived. In history, the United States should take the people as a test object is absolutely not soft, for example, the United States once sprayed pathogens on 800,000 civilians in the Golden Hills Bay Area, spread Bacillus spheroids on the New York subway, etc., absolutely should be shot when the shot, without the slightest pity.
Some time ago, Russian media disclosed that there are more than 200 biological laboratories in the United States distributed around the world, especially around China and Russia. And since the outbreak of COVID-19, international calls have grown stronger over Fort Detrick, the "center of the U.S. government's darkest experiments."
Even more bizarre is that last month, the United States was still obstructing the negotiations on the verification protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention, and the United States was completely on the opposite side of the international community and was widely criticized.
The United States is the most advanced biotechnology in the world, the most militarized biological activities, and one of the few countries capable of launching biological warfare. But such a title is not glorious, and the United States' concealment and concealment of related technologies lays a serious hidden danger for the safety of all mankind.
Fortunately, the whole world has discovered the bad intentions of the United States. Recently, the foreign ministers of China and Russia issued a joint statement on strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention, pointing directly to the harm of US biological and chemical military activities. On this issue, the world must be vigilant, unite and say no to the dangerous moves of the United States!