Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Released in Florida Keys - Friends of the Earth
Marathon, FL — The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD) and Oxitec, a British biotech company, will begin the first-ever U.S. release of genetically engineered (GE) Aedes aegypti mosquitoes this week. Despite scientific concerns and public outcry over the human health and environment risks, the field trial’s first phase will release up to 144,000 GE mosquitoes over the course of the next 12 weeks. The full trial will release up to a billion GE mosquitoes over a two-year period in Monroe County, Florida. The mosquitoes are being released in Cudjoe Key, Ramrod Key and Vaca Key. C...
Source: foe.org