The Weaponization of Gene-Edited Mosquitoes
There are several dimensions to the mosquito crisis. The release of gene-edited male mosquitoes, coupled with the development of a dengue and malaria vaccine
But that is but the tip of the iceberg.
According to F. William Engdahl in 2018, the weaponization of insects is on the drawing board of the Pentagon:
There is strong evidence that the Pentagon, through its research and development agency, DARPA, is developing genetically modified insects that would be capable of destroying agriculture crops of a potential enemy.
The claim has been denied by DARPA, but leading biologists have sounded the alarm on what is taking place using new “gene-editing” CRISPR technology to in effect weaponize insects.
It’s like a 21st Century update of the Biblical plague of locusts, only potentially far worse.
Under the DARPA project, Genetic Alteration Agents or viruses will be introduced into the insect population to directly influence the genetic makeup of crops.
DARPA plans to use leaf hoppers, white flies, and aphids to introduce select viruses into crops. Among other dubious claims they say it will help farmers combat ‘climate change’.
What no one can answer, especially as neither the Pentagon nor the US FDA are asking, is how will the genetically engineered viruses in the insects interact with other microorganisms in the environment?
If crops are constantly being inundated by genetically modified viruses, how could this could alter the genetics and immune systems of humans who depend on the crops?
See F. William Engdahl, Why Is the Pentagon “Weaponizing Insects”? October 30, 2018
This posting includes excerpts from Jordan Shachtel, Amie Wek and Jamie White followed by the article of F. William Engdahl.
The World Mosquito Program plans to release five billion mosquitoes into Brazil.
“And the hope is they will help save lives. [Once] you see the reductions in disease transmission, it doesn’t seem like a horror movie any more,” Scott O’Neill, director of the World Mosquito Program” (CBC, April 2023)
Implemented concurrently with the influx of 5 billion friendly mosquitoes, Brazil approved in March 2023 a vaccine against dengue.
In turn, the Brazilian government has confirmed its support for the creation of a Mosquito Factory which is slated to produce 5 billion mosquitoes a year starting in 2024.
I should mention that the British Company Oxitec has been actively involved in the development of genetically modified mosquitoes in the course of the last eight years:
“They will mate with the females of the ordinary mosquitoes, spawning babies with a genetically inbuilt flaw that causes them to die quickly.
Oxitec says its factory in the town of Piracicaba, northwest of Sao Paulo, can produce 60 million mutant mosquitoes a week.” (Phys.org, 2016)
Coordination of “Mosquito Production” and Vaccine Against Dengue
There is a coordination of Brazil’s factory production of gene-edited mosquitoes with that of the vaccine to halt dengue by the non-profit World Mosquito Program (WMP) funded by Big Pharma’s Wellcome Trust and the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation.
“These mosquitoes are allies in the fight against dengue and other deadly viruses. The demand for these lifesaving mosquitoes continues to grow and that means the World Mosquito Program needs to produce hundreds of millions of Wolbachia mosquitoes.”
This might sound the beginnings of a Hollywood writer’s horror film plot.
But it’s not. This factory is real.
And the mosquitoes being released don’t terrorize the local population. Far from it. They’re actually helping to save and improve millions of lives.
That brings us back to the factory in Medellín, which is currently the world’s largest mosquito breeding facility in the world, producing more than 30 million mosquitoes per week. [1.5 billion per annum]
With regard to the Vaccine against Dengue, more than 3 million people are slated to receive the jab against Dengue in 2024” (CBC Report, April 2023, That report was published almost a year ago).
The 2024 Brazil “Mosquito Horror Story”
Today Brazil is experiencing something beyond the “The Premise for A Horror Movie”.
The release of 5 billion male gene-edited mosquitoes in 2023 was intended to REDUCE the number of mosquitoes in Brazil.
The underlying logic was that the male gene-edited mosquitoes would be mating with normal female mosquitoes with a view to undermining the reproductive process and significantly reducing the number of normal mosquitoes.
That did not happen.
What is now happening is exactly the opposite. Early 2024: There is a tendency for the number mosquitoes to increase. WHY?
Brazil’s Health Minister casually blames it on the hot weather and “above-average rainfall.”
According to a Yale University research project quoted by Engdahl:
“some of the [gene edited] mosquitoes likely have “hybrid vigor,” resulting from “a hybrid of the natural mosquito with the gene-edited mosquito.”
What has occurred is the creation of “a more robust population than the pre-release population [of mosquitoes] which may be more resistant to insecticides, in short, resistant “super mosquitoes.””
What’s the OUTCOME?
According to Engdahl:
After an initial period in which the target mosquito population markedly declined, after about 18 months the mosquito population recovered to pre-release levels.
Here is the official media narrative, which blatantly contradicts what is actually happening:
“The firm has developed a version of the male Aedes aegypti mosquito which carries a gene that kills female offspring before they reach maturity, suppressing the population. Only female mosquitoes bite and transmit diseases.
Eggs for the mosquitoes are placed inside a box and water is added to activate them.
“They complete the cycle inside these boxes in about ten days and the adult insects come out to do their work,” said Oxitec’s general manager in Brazil, Natalia Ferreira.
As the modified mosquitoes are released in a given region, they proliferate and the total population of the insect decreases. (Reuters, 28, February, 2024, emphasis added)
See video below.
According to F. William Engdahl:
“This once more highlights the dangers of uncontrolled gene-editing of species”, generously funded by the Gates Foundation.
The Gates Foundation’s Dengue and Malaria Vaccine
According to The Guardian:
“in the first five weeks of this year [2024], 364,855 cases of infection have been reported, the health ministry [Brazil] said, four times more than dengue cases in the same period of 2023.”
Below are the figures of Brazil’s Ministry of Health, comparing 2023 and 2024.
Is this surge in dengue infection the result of hot weather and “above-average rainfall” as outlined by Ministry of Health? Or is it the result of the release of the five billion gene-edited “modified mosquitoes” in 2023?
The impacts of the release of gene-edited mosquitoes have over the years been the object of extensive laboratory research.
Was there foreknowledge in terms of prior scientific research as to what was going to happen, namely the surge in the number of hybrid “Super Mosquitoes” as well as the reproduction (through the mating process) of the hybrid variety of mosquitoes?
Brazil had committed itself to supporting the factory production of gene-edited mosquitoes, with a commitment to release another five billion gene-edited mosquitoes in 2024.
Will that project be carried out?
See more here substack.com
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