Why Is Florida Releasing 750 Million GMO Mosquitoes?

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The U.S. EPA recently gave the green light to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. Why are they doing this, and what are the potential risks?
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In May 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency gave the go ahead to release hundreds of millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys.
Mosquitoes are considered the deadliest animals in the world-they carry a variety of diseases including but not limited to malaria and yellow fever. Mosquitoes cause hundreds of thousands of deaths each year as a result of their bites.
One mosquito species in particular, Aedes aegypti, can spread several diseases like dengue, zika, and yellow fever and is considered a serious threat to public health.
So why would anyone in their right mind what to purposefully release hundreds of these into the world?
Find out in this Elements.
#mosquito #gmo #EPA #florida #science #environment #seeker #elements
Read More:
Florida mosquitoes: 750 million genetically modified insects to be released
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"The green-lighting of a pilot project after years of debate drew a swift outcry from environmental groups, who warned of unintended consequences. One group condemned the plan as a public 'Jurassic Park experiment'."
Study on DNA spread by genetically modified mosquitoes prompts backlash
www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/...
"A team of independent researchers analyzing an early trial of Oxitec’s technology is raising alarm-and drawing fire from the firm-with a report that some offspring of the GM mosquitoes survived and produced offspring that also made it to sexual maturity."
This May Be the Deadliest Creature on Earth
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"We squash mosquitoes with our enormous hands. We poison-bomb them from spray trucks and airplanes. We irradiate them, drain their habitats, breed them experimentally in laboratories to confound their DNA."
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@sanjit8213 3 года назад

lots of scary buzzword: GMO, mosquito, FLORIDA...

@HShango 3 года назад

How the hell are these words scary, it's just science jargon.

@mohit5496 3 года назад

👆 this guy did not get the joke

@alexmediagroup8971 3 года назад

@@HShangoFlorida is scary bro

@inceldestroyer1069 3 года назад

Hes right.

@wesleyhempoli5548 3 года назад

@@HShango said the peanut brain that ends a question with a comma.

@admiralsunshine Год назад

I've been in Florida my whole life and the mosquitoes now in December 2022 are completely out of control. They are numerous, unusually aggressive, out during the day, and the fall chill has not made them retreat underground. Mosquitoes in rural Florida have always been small and all black, I've never seen striped mosquitoes in the woods before. The striped variety generally stay in urban areas and are opportunistic and sneaky rather than swarmers. Some of what I've read anecdotally from Brazil is that the altered males interbred with other wild mosquito varieties and offspring share traits physical/behavioral/etc. This stands up well to what I'm seeing now. If only someone could have seen this coming, like the more than 200,000 Florida Keys residents who signed a petition and were painted as dumb hicks

@MrPolandball 11 месяцев назад

Now there’s malaria outbreak in florida

@DirtyShishKabob 11 месяцев назад

Now we have to deal with malaria... look into Bill gates project

@charlesmrader 9 месяцев назад

@@MrPolandball The cases of malaria in Florida are NOT anywhere near where the Oxitec mosquitoes were released.

@scottwilliams9668 9 месяцев назад

I’m in Ontario Canada, and this is hitting us hard now!! I can’t even take my daughter to the park, and they’re not just at night anymore. They’re throughout the day now. I’m being attacked in 10 degree Celsius weather.

@TheWarriorState 8 месяцев назад

You think they can't travel?@@charlesmrader

@Snabel 3 года назад

Its 2020 nothing could go wrong right?

@peterthongborisute3218 3 года назад

Hahahaha.... no?

@decembersunita 3 года назад

😂

@unbeatableox3846 3 года назад

Yes. Nothing

@stevechance150 3 года назад

Genetically modified mosquitoes, released into the wild, in 2020... Do you want a zombie apocalypse, 'cause this is how you get a zombie apocalypse.

@amenoxblitz7317 3 года назад

@@stevechance150 more like getting more conspiracies

@thegoldengriffin6377 3 года назад

Comment section: 99% Florida Man memes 1% Science

@kenj4136 3 года назад

.000001% comment meta analysis 😀

@xxgimpl0rdxx22 3 года назад

Science? What? No. This is a yt comment section.

@thegoldengriffin6377 3 года назад

@@xxgimpl0rdxx22 makes sense why there's just memes here it's like twitch chat

@boogiethekingtm5413 3 года назад

Were is this 1% you speak of 😂 always looking for that side of the comment section

@fiat2496 Год назад

they should first release it in the yards off all the scientists and executives of the company to prove how safe it is

@posterizedsoul4810 3 года назад

2020: Already has been a bad year Florida: Here's a gift form our side.

@i_might_be_lying 3 года назад

Florida keeps on giving!

@axion986 3 года назад

Sounds like a positive on their part.

@miss.apprehended 3 года назад

it's Bill Gates's doing; just like he's involved in plenty other schemes that prop up this plandem!c- Oxitec is a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded/founded organization.

@Hyraethian 3 года назад

@@miss.apprehended If this project has Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Funding then Id like to go from 100% on board to 110% on board.

@LittleRainGames 3 года назад

@ֆђคภภ๏ภ Ꮛɭץรรค lol no... bill gates is a good man. shows how you are most likely autistic as you have a horrible judge of character. you can see it in Bills eyes that he is good, if you were autistic you wouldnt be able yo tell. like you can see how Kenneth Copeland is clearly the devil.

@jonbarlock848 11 месяцев назад

In 2023 there are cases of molaria in FL and Texas. Those are the two states mentioned in this video. Coincidence???

@crazyboss3438 8 месяцев назад

Bioweapon…

@charlottebarham7722 2 месяца назад

this breed of mosquito doesn't carry malaria.

@lolok1099 2 месяца назад

Maybe those counties have the most mosquitoes bozo

@ionseven 3 года назад

_Mosquitoes are the deadliest animals on earth._ "Meh that's just the great outdoors." _Sharks, by comparison, only kill about 4 people a year._ "I'm never going in the ocean ever again."

@nezotours 3 года назад

You are wrong, Homo Sapiens is the deadliest of all living beings on earth...

@will9001asd 3 года назад

Its why I don't go outside

@guyonthecouch007 3 года назад

Yea but not everyone spends the majority of their lives in the water.

@TragoudistrosMPH 3 года назад

Such a weird human trait... Some people sadly compared Covid-19 and Influeza the same way...

@MrDanisve 3 года назад

@Rolli Nia Not here in Norway, building code is so strict now not even a molecule of air can find its way into a home. Well unless you leave the door open at night with the lights on, but then you are begging for it. Since i moved into this place i dont think ive ever seen a mosquito inside. About 5 years. Spent a night in a tent this summer, got visited by billions of them. Got like 40 years worth of bites in just one evening.

@artsymamanana 11 месяцев назад

And now, suddenly malaria has just struck Florida.

@charlesmrader 10 месяцев назад

This is an extraordinarily stupid comment. Malaria is carried by mosquitoes in a totally different genus. Malaria is caused by a microbe, where as the Aedes mosquitoes carry viruses. The released Oxitec mosquitoes were in the Florida keys, hundreds of miles away from Sarasota county, where the malaria cases were found.

@Blazingfireball977 3 года назад

Did anyone have their skin crawl when looking at all those Mosquitoes?

@Matt0sh 3 года назад

@fkeita67 3 года назад

no, my mind yes

@lucasmeddison3018 3 года назад

Nope

@kogkita 3 года назад

mine does and when i saw, it was just a centipede nothing unusual

@shiv612. 3 года назад

Me lol

@Sciencerely 3 года назад

As a human biologist, I think it's amazing how CRISPR Cas9 gene editing have enabled so many different new fields of research. Besides the mosquitoes GMOs, CRISPR Cas9 has also been effectively been used to modify crops and making them more fertile or to correct mutations in animals suffering from Duchenne muscular dystrophy (I made a video about CRISPR/Cas9 editing a long time ago). Compared to previous gene editing tools CRISPR/Cas9 is much more specific, effective and very easy to use. Those are some of the reasons why Doudna & Charpentier were awarded with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine this year!

@tea4223 3 года назад

Thanks for the info...👍

@User9681e 3 года назад

Still not much effective directly on humans because of immune response but for embro editing it's great

@JoJo-px2um 3 года назад

They won the Chemistry price

@myramedicinewindkay813 3 года назад

GMO food has no tadye & is not nourishing. It has no Spirit.To be such egomaniacs that they mess with animals, much less humans will create the downfall of what Hopi's call the 4th World. Lack of Gratitude to Creator & Greed caused the other 3 downfalls. When Corporations gained the status of "entity", began this powergrab. Man can't Create a Soul. The Biltaberger's want Soul-less slaves, without Conscience. Are you all do stupid you can't understand where all this GMO is leading us? Natural Law is all we need. Artificial, synthetic, plastic, goes against this. If someone gets a disease, that is a way of working off Karma, Cause & Effect. Man is not Creator. Period. The ERA of Thinking & Doing is about to crash. With the Poleshift, we will go back to the state of Nurturing, of just BEING.

@michaelesposito2629 3 года назад

I like how you’re ignoring any and all potential harmful possibilities. It’s all sunshine , rainbows, and GMO bunny rabbits in your world lol

@greengenez2512 10 месяцев назад

And now malaria in Florida and Texas. SMH

@imadumass2378 2 года назад

When people realize mosquitoes were the bio weapon.

@crazyboss3438 8 месяцев назад

Frl…

@watema3381 3 года назад

Do this EVERYWHERE. PLEASE. _PLEASE!!!_ We _need_ this amazing technology in Africa. So many people die a year from Malaria alone.

@danielhu6485 3 года назад

@Thomas Chrombly that’s cause it doesn’t affect first-world countries as much lol. Kill millions of poor, no one bats an eye. Kill hundreds of wealthy, and people start panicking

@danielhu6485 3 года назад

@Vinny Yeh, well hopefully everything turns out well. It’s a risk, but the benefits outweighs the alternatives

@tubester4567 3 года назад

@@danielhu6485 Thats not true though. There are huge anti-malaria programs in Africa and worldwide run by western countries and world health organisations like WHO. Eradicating malaria is one of the biggest health initiatives in the world and has been for many years. Malaria is a problem in about 100 countries, but millions of visitors and tourists from safe countries are at risk too. Its a serious problem for everyone. Western scientists have been working on anti-malaria medicines for decades and vaccines. There are several drugs available to cure malaria for most people, and to protect you getting it. Rich westerners like Bill Gates has given 1 billion dollars for a malaria eradication program. Africa is at high risk because of the climate and many people live in poorer and rural areas with poor medical support and infrastructure . Most at risk are the very young, children, who can get sick and die quickly before getting access to medical treatment. Its just not true to say nobody cares, or nobody is working on it. Eradicating malaria is one of the biggest health initiatives in the world.

@danielhu6485 3 года назад

@@tubester4567 Ok I did exaggerate it a bit, but it's still undeniable that people react with greater care when tragedy happens in a first-world country, as compared to a third-world country

@anustubhmishra 3 года назад

i live in india and i got dengue last year.... IT IS NOT FUN. please bring it here ant other places that need it

@gabrielmiraldo6006 3 года назад

These GMO mosquitoes were tested in my hometown (Piracicaba - SP, Brazil). They were really helpful in terms of reduing the number of people having deseases related to Aedes Aegypti. Also, the city population noticed a great reduction in the number of this mosquito type.

@User9681e 3 года назад

Yeah hopefully the anti gmo people understand crisper is a tool that can be used both for good and bad take kitchen knife as an example helps cut food but can technically be used offensively But unlike a knife it's hard to use offensively at least till decent AI algs can predict and aid in design since everyone small gene change can have huge impact

@samanthacalderon282 3 года назад

Thank you for sharing! I was immediately concerned about the mosquitos being tested in other countries and possibly causing harm. I’m glad they were helpful!

@User9681e 3 года назад

@@samanthacalderon282 annihilation of parasitic mosquitos yay

@ZackWolfMusic 3 года назад

Hi from Salvador Brazil!

@arnowisp6244 3 года назад

@@samanthacalderon282 I wouldn't put bets on that. Sooner or later he'll realize that the benefits were just an illusion.

@Vc1fxae 3 года назад

I guess the sequel of 2020 has a new script.

@shaymary5247 3 года назад

And ppl look forward to 2021... 😳😳😳

@alexisguerrero3105 3 года назад

No reason to fear 2021

@shaymary5247 3 года назад

@@alexisguerrero3105 every reason to, actually! 😑

@alexisguerrero3105 3 года назад

@@shaymary5247 explain 🧐

@shaymary5247 3 года назад

@@alexisguerrero3105 need I say more after this?: Since 9/11, USA went downhill. In 2012, the earth went thru an odd shift; more darkness occured after that (ie, birds suddenly dropping dead from the sky, illuminati leaked, odd sounds around the world, more UFO activity...). Now, here's 2020. The shit's hit the fan, but only the 1st portion. The tip of the iceberg has melted, & we're now being introduced to what's beneath! Imagine 2021. Bu then 2022 will also get worse. The saying, " It gets worse before it gets better" means that it'll take havoc to occur- complete chaos leading into order, just like the WW1 & esp, WW2 times but much worse... You'll see.

@Melissa0774 3 года назад

I wish they'd do something like this to try and get rid of Lyme disease ticks.

@1995pieter 3 года назад

Good one!

@AboxofMonsters 3 года назад

These prob are engineered. This one also has an agenda.

@unassumingaccount395 3 года назад

@@AboxofMonsters An agenda of... getting rid of malaria? Wow so bad!!!

@connor863 3 года назад

Same. I hate mosquitoes and ticks!

@howardbaxter2514 3 года назад

@@AboxofMonsters didn't know getting rid of the deadliest disease in the world, of which kills millions of animals (not just humans) EVERY year was an "agenda". There is literally no plus side for malaria to exist, and it would actually be a favor to the entire world if humans eradicated it.

@BDNeon 3 года назад

Honestly I'm kinda amazed at the 30-50 percent figure from traditional methods, I had no idea it was so effective.

@yashgadhavi6385 Год назад

Me too

@nickm.4143 9 месяцев назад

All I know is Florida didn't have malaria until just after they released those things.

@robinseibel7540 3 года назад

I'd be interested to see what effect such efforts have on bat populations. Bats are very effective mosquito neutralizers. Perhaps an effort to increase bat populations would be worthy.

@adampyburn9201 Год назад

I thought the same thing about bats, but read that only about 2% of their diet is mosquitoes - apparently they mostly eat moths.

@kmeadows100 3 года назад

I'd be more concerned about those chemicals they are spraying everywhere than some GMO mosquitoes.

@terrotech718 3 года назад

4:51 I literally flinched with my headphones on!

@warriorfromthedeepweb9301 3 года назад

It's Florida lol...

@mygirldarby 3 года назад

A lot of people put down Florida, but it has some of the most beautiful beaches, especially on the Gulf side. It is like paradise in the Sarasota/Naples area.

@Satisfyy 3 года назад

How do you think my video ?

@TheBaconEarBuccaneer 3 года назад

@@mygirldarby i think its more to do with the people rather than the scenery

@Greatlakeskyle. 3 года назад

Good one..

@ndrsg3013 3 года назад

[Gates] got banned in South Africa release these mosquitos.... Research, all the birth anomalies it gave...

@chriss2295 3 года назад

I’m sure this won’t have unforeseen consequences

@ROBMCKISSOCK 3 года назад

Can you imagine what the Psycho's in our government could do to us with this technology ?

@jenjen9266 3 года назад

Bill gates is behind it enough said!!

@theexcaliburone5933 2 года назад

It wouldn’t actually do much in humans cus each generation is so long, and cus we have so few children (comparatively). There’s be plenty of time to cure it

@paradoxic1888 9 месяцев назад

Exactly, just look at where the funding is coming from. If humanity is this stupid to fall for the same tricks over and over again then we get what we deserve.

@ROBMCKISSOCK 9 месяцев назад

Yeah, it's kind of sad. It's called normalcy bias@@paradoxic1888

@brooklynPhyllis 7 месяцев назад

That’s what I say

@Souchirouu 3 года назад

We genetically modify living things all the time just not in a controlled way. While doing it in a controlled way brings its own dangers I think that we can get good enough at this to make it significantly safer than just letting the semi-random way of nature do it. Eventually we want humanity to be able to control the entire ecosystem. We'll have to if we want to keep our planet habitable for humans. From removing disease spreaders like mosquitoes to improving plants to more efficiently grow or remove carbon from the air. It's just so ridiculous to me that we could effectively and ethically feed every single person on this planet but we don't. The even more silly thing is that we don't do this for short-term economical reasons even though in the long term having more of the world be a productive addition to humanity will be a huge boon for both humanity and the economy in the long term.

@Shaden0040 3 года назад

How can you control GMO animals released into the wild? They thought they could control non-GMO creatures like, fire ants, Africanized honey bees, Gypsy moths, a multitude of invasive plants (Kudzu) and fungi (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, a type of chytrid fungus which has world wide infected over 500 amphibian species decimating their numbers in the wild, and White-nose syndrome (WNS) is the fungal disease killing bats in North America. Research indicates the fungus that causes WNS, Pseudogymnoascus destructans, is likely exotic, introduced from Europe.)

@arnowisp6244 3 года назад

@@Shaden0040 You can't, I view the introduction of GMO animals no different from introducing invasive species. It's only pure human hubris that makes people like the OP here THINK we could control the ENTIRE ecosystem. As the saying goes, knowledge can puff one up.

@aronseptianto8142 3 года назад

@@arnowisp6244 ah yes, such hubris is farming, such hubris is domestication, such hubris is launching satellite to have world wide communication system do you see where your logic breaks down here? every technology we have was an untested technology in the past, the only reason we know it's a reliable technology is because we actually test the damn thing, not chicken out whenever a random protester try to linch you because you're trying to prove that the earth is not the center of universe

@arnowisp6244 3 года назад

@@aronseptianto8142 www.nationalgeographic.org/article/environmental-impacts-agricultural-modifications/ Don't let your own hubris puff you up from our damage.

@aronseptianto8142 3 года назад

@@arnowisp6244 this is the kind of agricultural modification we try to avoid we can make crops that use less pesticide, that survives in a quite dry place and uses less fertilizer if you read the article, that's the kind of issue genetically modifying crops try to solve I mean, what's the other option? let people starve?

@chriskenedy1305 3 года назад

We learned about this sort of thing in class years ago. It's so exciting to see if finally going live.

@dankthegank4315 2 года назад

If I had money I’d bet that this is going to end badly...

@FrogQueenie 3 года назад

Interesting! Follow up video this year?? :D

@nunyabidniz2868 3 года назад

It's been decades, but in high school biology class I seem to remember learning that given a blood feast, female mosquitoes could lay female eggs; male mosquitoes mate w/ females and that leads to more male mosquitoes [and more females too.] So I don't understand what releasing sterile males does, except eliminate the male mosquito pollinators [male mosq's live off nectar, iirc.] Has mosquito biology changed that much since I was a kid?

@3ngi_n33r Год назад

The last time this was done in Florida, coof numbers shot up a few months later in fl. Crazy coincidence.

@candiedskull9841 3 года назад

On they finally did that! I've been hearing about it here and there. Thank you for the video on it!

@artsymamanana 11 месяцев назад

Now malaria is found. Hmmmm

@charlesmrader 10 месяцев назад

Stupid comment. Malaria is not the same disease as any of dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika fever, Mayaro and yellow fever, all virus diseases while malaria is a microorganism, and the seven malaria cases in Florida were a few hundred miles away from where the GM mosquitoes were released.

@BrianKenyon 2 года назад

So what were the results from this so far?

@thelegacyofgaming2928 11 месяцев назад

Malaria now

@Metacognition88 3 года назад

Thanks. This high quality information was deluxe

@nightcoredoze1303 3 года назад

this has already been implemented in Singapore for about a year now and in January 2019, Aedes Mosquito population was down 80%. Have faith America.

@smellthel 3 года назад

I heard of this years ago and ever expected them to actually consider it

@Hyraethian 3 года назад

I support these kinds of gene-drive experiments to reduce human suffering. I am very glad that risk assessment to the environment is a high priority. This isn't just our planet, we share it. Although, and I don't think i've ever said this before, I wouldn't mind sharing this planet with one less species. yaknow, if the ecosystems are flexible enough to handle that loss.

@eushandageorge2554 3 года назад

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@AndreiKohler 3 года назад

I know that I don't know enough to make a dumb-ass comment if this is a good idea or not, but it is intriguing indeed.

@ushasuryawanshi1688 3 года назад

Was waiting for this

@cheea5 3 года назад

They've done similar things like this before and it actually worked very well. Look into mosquitoes and Wolbachia.

@heavencanceller1863 3 года назад

Seeing genetics being used in such creative ways to counter problems is always so interesting

@thelegacyofgaming2928 11 месяцев назад

How do you feel about it now...?

@heavencanceller1863 11 месяцев назад

@@thelegacyofgaming2928 I don't live in Florida so I don't feel any different

@lrn_news9171 8 месяцев назад

@@heavencanceller1863So, you need to be experiencing what's happening in Florida to have an opinion about it? lol

@heavencanceller1863 8 месяцев назад

@@lrn_news9171 no, I need to know what's happening in Florida to have an opinion about it

@aggressivetourist1818 3 года назад

One day, they would evolve quickly and occupy abandon underground metro.

@TheLirJEt86 Год назад

I always get super itchy when I watch this educational insect stuff.

@AL_THOMAS_777 10 месяцев назад

contagious, huh . . .

@kiroooooooous7492 3 года назад

Ayy seeker is back!

@dhawthorne1634 3 года назад

The mosquitoes have already spread to their max range. Can we please try to do something about the Spotted Lantern Fly first? My area is already infested but they are slow moving and could be stopped before making it to any more states.

@charlesmrader 10 месяцев назад

You should recognize that applying Oxitec's science to other species is not just a decision for politicians and people commenting on RU-vid. It takes research, extensive research, to learn important stuff about the genetics and biology of the targeted species. Oxitec has been working on a crop pest called the diamondback moth, with the first field trials now happening.

@thebobloblawshow8832 3 года назад

Always a great idea. What could go wrong?

@Doping1234 3 года назад

Oh wow, an actual discussion, I am impressed!

@rajendrakhanvilkar9362 3 года назад

Great video

@adrianchristopherx 3 года назад

"If there's one thing the history of evolution has taught us, it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories, and crashes through barriers painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh, well, there it is." - Ian Malcolm

@incognitotorpedo42 3 года назад

We got rid of Smallpox. I hope we get rid of Aedes Aegypti.

@vuk5576 3 года назад

Yet so many species have went extinct.

@WestOfEarth 3 года назад

Given the choice between pesticides and modified mosquitos, I'll choose the latter. Pesticides are indiscriminate and can become concentrated in animals as it moves up the food chain.

@duckyboi9363 3 года назад

Thank you for making this video, I have decided to base my first IWA (Individual Written Argument) for AP Seminar off of this topic. Idk why I just felt like putting it out there...

@holyravioli5795 3 года назад

Oh finally, I've been waiting for this for years.

@TheHadi545 3 года назад

"Sometimes science is more art than science morty, lot of people don't get that"

@matthewkearney9044 3 года назад

It would make me feel a lot more comfortable with this if it wasn't approved by this administration's EPA. The EPA is a shell of what is use to be.

@boxr_4214 3 года назад

well the alternative is not being approved by anything. also the current EPA is really just bad with climate policy (cos trump doesn’t listen to scientists), i still personally would trust them in this scenario, especially considering florida is a swing state.

@matthewkearney9044 3 года назад

@@boxr_4214 True, plus other agencies did sign off on it

@aronseptianto8142 3 года назад

it's a start, your government may not be what it used to be but they still play an important role you guys should make an effort to reform it, for sure but people still need to rely on it to a certain extent

@jewelhaines8842 3 года назад

I lived in Tavernier Florida for 4 years. I loved it.

@fristi 3 года назад

Great invention 💪🏻

@christinahartnett2316 3 года назад

If Jurrasic Park taught us anything it's life will find a way.

@willieverusethis 3 года назад

Those little ankle-biters just made it to my town this summer. I'd like to offer my back yard as a testing area for the GMO males!

@damocles4744 2 года назад

Is there an update on how it’s going?

@Zacharythealien 3 года назад

Im excited about this.

@scottredding2719 3 года назад

Those are billy boy gates too! They are filled with eugenics!!

@lucasfc4587 3 года назад

Lol, Bill Gates is the most famous billionaire that is also secretly devil himself trying to morph society, yeah, of course

@scottredding2719 3 года назад

@Red Matter so you're pro eugenics? Margret Sanger would be proud!!

@lucasfc4587 3 года назад

@Red Matter and now all pugs have respiratory issues... great!

@UserName-tb7vj 3 года назад

You know this would actually be rally cool if it wasn’t 2020

@maximilian_k.2453 2 года назад

More then a year has gone by... did something change by now?

@xeros4000 3 года назад

i think the point is not to reduce mosquito population, if im remembering correctly this is mostly for testing purposes for the next phase, which is mosqitos modified to not carry deadly disesaes. there is no need to fear gmo mosquitos, scientists have been researching and debating this for a really long time.

@thelegacyofgaming2928 11 месяцев назад

How very wrong you turned out to be.

@MaxS535 6 месяцев назад

@@thelegacyofgaming2928 Please elaborate

@MrWildbill 3 года назад

I have been ok with GMO crops but I have to admit I am still a little worried doing in far more complex things like insects. The problem I see is that with mosquitoes there is no way to recall them as in the case of seed we can plow under the bad crop and we control the location and use of the seeds.

@charlesmrader 10 месяцев назад

@MrWildbill that's exactly wrong. If the region stops releasing sterile male mosquitoes, the mosquito population recovers in a matter of a few weeks.

@Christian_Prepper 3 года назад

*"Only females draw blood"* *Very important statement.*

@hannahalexy 3 года назад

@@oluwaremilekunbell6159 what's there to "get"?

@thehammurabichode7994 2 года назад

Men and women can be horrible though, let's get back to being unjustifyably terrified of all GMOs!

@methods5873 3 года назад

I don't know but I have a feeling that this will seriously alter the balance of the swamp ecosystem.

@annajas1098 2 года назад

But what happens when GMO mosquito bites you…?

@charlesmrader 10 месяцев назад

@@annajas1098 Well, I guess you grow wings and develop a taste for blood.

@HelamanGile 3 года назад

The scariest word Florida almost gave me a heart attack

@morfy2581 3 года назад

mutated mosquito apocalypse sounds like a nice event for the end of the year.

@decembersunita 3 года назад

I think they should do this in India too. I'm fed up of using so much mosquito repellent chemicals. 😔 I hope it's a success. 👍🙏

@TomarBoroDada 3 года назад

Yes ... People just blindly hate on GMOs without any factual reason .... Hope they do this in India too ❤️

@robburke6611 3 года назад

Good video

@f.o.n.1244 3 года назад

I cant imagine living in michigan without misquitos. It would be a dream though.

@josiah42 3 года назад

There's a really crucial detail missing from this video: This is a commercial product that's already been in use in the Caribbean for over a decade. Well tested means that we already know what is and is not going to happen. The only scary thing is how many people have still died in Africa due to malaria when we could have fixed it long ago for very minimal cost.

@bettertvreceptionwithfoilf7100 11 месяцев назад

Bill Gates is responsible. Now we have malaria in Florida in 2023 and Texas as well. Two very strong republican-held voting States I might add.

@thelegacyofgaming2928 11 месяцев назад

Lmao, this has nothing to do with Republicans. It has to do with someone wanting to control the population. Florida and Texas are large states with a lot of mosquito breeding ground, so it was the perfect target.

@AL_THOMAS_777 10 месяцев назад

@@thelegacyofgaming2928 Maybe ! Someone recently said: "Reps . . . Dems - same difference like Pepsi & Coke (almost none)

@charlesmrader 10 месяцев назад

Stupid comment. Malaria is caused by a microorganism, not a virus. Malaria is carried by a different genus of mosquito. The seven cases in Florida are in a county several hundred miles away the Florida keys. What has this to do with partisan politics?

@markoposavec9240 3 года назад

Sounds like a fairly reasonable plan. It should be better for the environment, no pesticides killing innocent bug species, no water contamination... The mosquitoes should not be affected long term because natural selection should eliminate these genes from the gene pool quickly. Hopefully there will not be any unforeseen long term effects.

@PoohCCat 3 года назад

Well i hope Oxitec's plan is successful. I mean, i like the sound of their theory and experiments done on mosquitoes. Advanced technologies are amazing...

@eyadouri7111 11 месяцев назад

Now we have a malaria vaccine 🤣

@ricecristi 3 года назад

If other creatures eat the mosquitos, will it negatively affect them?

@charlesmrader 10 месяцев назад

Certainly not.

@johnellis8401 3 года назад

2020: at the end of the year I'm getting rid of all the mosquitoes Everyone going through 2020: but at what cost?!?

@chrillebon 3 года назад

Looks like you have your script right next to the camera. Gives the feel that you are elsewhere when reading to the camera. Maybe try placing the text right over/under the camera instead, so it feels like you are looking more directly into the camera.

@axem.8338 3 года назад

I thought humans were deadliest animals

@MrHazardousMC 3 года назад

You're right, sadly.

@lunetist6 3 года назад

@@MrHazardousMC humans by the way are second behind the mosquito, causing 475,000 deaths every year while mosquitos cause up to 1mil

@axem.8338 3 года назад

@@MrHazardousMC I feel bad for all other species who are losing a battle they dont even know they are fighting.

@kenj4136 3 года назад

Thats the real reason for eradicating the mosquitoes. Humans wont be outdone 😆. Anyways since we are responsible for a whole extinction event. I think we get the evolutionary high achievment award that most species can only dream of.

@ezxy7714 3 года назад

Watch parasyte maxim it’s really good.

@thrivinganarchy5267 3 года назад

If there's been years and years of testing with good caution, then I honestly think this is a good move considering this can save lives.

@oldmech619 3 года назад

I saw a friend of mine die from malaria on Christmas Day in Asia. Whatever scientist can do to reduce their presence should be greeted with the firm knowledge that it will save lives.

@elizabethlockley5861 3 месяца назад

Would you trust gat.es with your child

@diegocampuzano5491 3 года назад

Hey Seeker I got a question what happens to your body when taking a headache capsule everyday?

@dg8620 3 года назад

I can recall so many times man intervened with natural populations and created bigger problems than they started with. Rabbits in Australia, grey squirrels in UK, "cat island" etc. Has this ever worked successfully?

@charlesmrader 2 года назад

Yes.

@charlesmrader 10 месяцев назад

Without minimizing the consequences of interactions that didn't work out, yes it has worked successfully. If you want an important example, try honey bees. America never had them. Now they benefit people, and many flowering plants.

@antonisusanto8148 3 года назад

Life finds a way. -Dr. Malcolm

@aleksandersuur9475 3 года назад

Not always, extinction is a thing and can certainly be caused on purpose. Driving infectious diseases to extinction, that's an impressive goal to strive towards and it is possible, it has already been done couple times in human history. Couple more times and maybe humanity will gain more confidence in doing it. Imagine one day almost all human infectious diseases being eradicated, sounds like an utopia, but it is possible, just very difficult.

@rdooski 3 года назад

I absolutely hate mosquitoes. Im one of those people they are drawn to like a magnet and im slightly allergic to them. They were really bad this year too. I couldn't be outside for more than 30 seconds without being bit.

@gottalovemyguitar2390 3 года назад

It's like spidernan but Peter gets bitten by a mosquito that is antibiotic resistant.

@Pyriphlegeton 3 года назад

Each year, millions of people die from mosquito transmitted diseases. Mostly in the poorest regions of this world. CRISPR/Cas would likely allow us to end that suffering completely. Yet people prioritize their own irrational fears over literal *millions of people dying.* Come on! We have the damn technology.

@adamturner4619 3 года назад

Who is scared of crispr

@KidaleSmith 3 года назад

That's a true statement. In humans too. 3:07

@k1n1ami18 3 года назад

lmao

@TimesUhave2BA_radicalintellect Год назад

Lmao i died when he counted florida as a trigger word.. because it really is

@ShitStainedBallSack 3 года назад

What could possibly go wrong

@BootCampSpecimen 3 года назад

154 OG mosquitos disliked this video

@otakuman706 3 года назад

Huh... Is it just me or is Florida is looked at kinda like the USA's Australia...? 🤔

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@itzcaleb_y_t6610 3 года назад

Got itchy just watching this

@kingakitosanimations7960 3 года назад

I'm glad they're doing the research to reduce the numbers. However, why couldn't they pick a better more annoying mosquito? The Asian Tiger Mosquito (aedes albopictus). They're all over the south and come summer you can't go two feet outside your door without being swarmed 😩

@andreatelesforo8260 3 года назад

I have personally been to the Florida Keys this past summer 5 times. All of my trips consisted in biking in areas where the mosquito population would be booming. Got 0 mosquito bites, and wore NO repellent. In comparison, in Miami, or the Everglades, I usually have to wear repellent and I always leave with bites. GMO MISSION SUCCESSFUL.