Deep dive: Florida’s GM mosquito experiment aims to rewrite rules of vector-borne diseases
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S. Kannan,
India Today,
2020.
A pathbreaking bioengineering experiment on mosquito populations that could have massive implications for tropical malaria-affected countries like India has got underway in Florida, US. The new GM technology claims to control the spread of vector-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue, chikungunya and Zika by altering the life-cycle of the virus-carrying mosquitoes. The new GM technology claims to control the spread of vector-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue, chikungunya and Zika by altering the life-cycle of the virus-carrying mosquitoes. The Florida Plan The pilot project in Florida Keys will be put to test to ascertain if genetically modified mosquitoes are a viable alternative to insecticides. The key focus is on controlling the population of the Aedes aegypti, a species of mosquito that spreads deadly diseases.
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