Florida releases 1 billion modified mosquitoes, called “terrorist”

The U.S. Florida Keys will implement an experimental mosquito reduction program, releasing one billion genetically modified mosquitoes that will mate with local females, thereby exterminating all mosquitoes. However, local residents describe it as terrorism.

The program, proposed by British biotechnology company Oxitec, has been approved by the federal government and local authorities, among others, with the goal of killing female mosquitoes. The program began this week with the release of 144,000 genetically modified mosquitoes in the first phase, or the next 12 weeks, with the goal of releasing 1 billion genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes over the two-year experimental period.

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes can transmit bone pain fever, Zika virus and yellow fever, etc.. But residents of the experiment fear, asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to end the experiment.

Residents of Hall said the plan is a crime, and denounced officials will be their experiments. The environmental group “Friends of the Earth” members of the Pals criticized the genetic mosquito is the darkest scene in history, he said the release of genetic mosquitoes will damage the environment, but also to other species pose a danger, urged the authorities to stop the plan.

There are also groups worried that genetic mosquitoes do not kill wild mosquitoes, but make wild mosquitoes mutate, becoming more difficult to kill.