Some Think Franken Mosquitoes More Dangerous Than Zika
Science News reports that Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers have published a study reporting that people unworried by mosquito-borne diseases are more upset that some scientists want to introduce genetically-modified mosquitoes into the environment to destroy those with Zika.
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The GMO mosquitoes are “bred to mate with wild females and produce offspring with a defective gene that kills them, thereby reducing the population of disease-carrying mosquitoes.”
The report, Genetically Modified (GM) Mosquito Use to Reduce Mosquito-Transmitted Disease in the US: A Community Opinion Survey, was first published in PLOS Currents Outbreaks.
