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Re:First GMO Mosquitoes to Be Released in the Florida Keys by kbenson on Friday April 16, 2021 @01:32PM (#26836778)
> Put another way, are there in potential benefits for the people living in the testing sites?

The submitted article mentions Zika in the first paragraph. So reducing Zika cases spread by mosquitos is one potential benefit.

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Re:First GMO Mosquitoes to Be Released in the Florida Keys by slowmovintarget on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:01PM (#26839040)
I'm all for reducing the EEE in the Greater Boston Area, too.

There are only four species of mosquito that bite humans. They are a tiny part of the food chain, and would be completely replaced by other food sources.

It's also not the first time humans have successfully made this kind of intervention.

Here's an article from 2016 about the same thing (it even mentions Oxitec): https://slate.com/technology/2016/01/zika-carrying-mosquitoe...

(I believe it was posted to HN a while back, but the article stuck with me as we don't dare enjoy the outdoors here for fear of our child getting Eastern Equine Encephalitis: https://www.cdc.gov/easternequineencephalitis/index.html )

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