The deadliest terrorists would be yer skeeters, Clambake. Skeeters are the number one killers around the planet because of the diseases they carry. One got to Lindsay Lohan and gave her chikungunya which, despite all your nasty dreams, is closer than you ever got to her. Bengal tigers, hippos, and Great White Sharks don't come anywhere even approaching the number of people killed by diseases carried by mosquitos.
Note to those with an insatiable need for useless information: yer hippo is, by far, the most dangerous predator and they easily kill more people than any other animal in Africa.
(Ed: maybe not so useless if you live in Africa?)
Good point.
What makes these skeeters interesting now is a GMO mosquito and the intrigue is the science as the DNA added to the skeeter genome is lethal to mosquito larvae. Any young born to females impregnated by the GMO skeeters have no chance of survival.
Seventy million of these skeeters have been released in other countries and no reports of side effects have been received despite actively requesting such information. Oxitec is the company behind this and they have run large-scale tests in the Cayman Islands and also in Brazil, both of which were highly successful and both of which countries want them to come back to do even larger programs. (Sun Sentinel: Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in Florida Keys)
Naturally, the people of Florida want to stop it. Much better to get some horrendous disease from a skeeter than run the risk of some type of GMO infection like "The Andromeda Strain" or some such. Asked one exceptionally insightful Floridian, "Why are we being used as the experiment, the guinea pigs, just to see what happens?"
Marilyn Smith, oblivious to the previous experiments yet still apparently Florida's representative medical expert, said neither disease has resulted in a major outbreak locally so why take the risk.
Tip to Marilyn: because the little fuckers can easily kill you. I hope this is clear enough.
Note to those with an insatiable need for useless information: yer hippo is, by far, the most dangerous predator and they easily kill more people than any other animal in Africa.
(Ed: maybe not so useless if you live in Africa?)
Good point.
What makes these skeeters interesting now is a GMO mosquito and the intrigue is the science as the DNA added to the skeeter genome is lethal to mosquito larvae. Any young born to females impregnated by the GMO skeeters have no chance of survival.
Seventy million of these skeeters have been released in other countries and no reports of side effects have been received despite actively requesting such information. Oxitec is the company behind this and they have run large-scale tests in the Cayman Islands and also in Brazil, both of which were highly successful and both of which countries want them to come back to do even larger programs. (Sun Sentinel: Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in Florida Keys)
Naturally, the people of Florida want to stop it. Much better to get some horrendous disease from a skeeter than run the risk of some type of GMO infection like "The Andromeda Strain" or some such. Asked one exceptionally insightful Floridian, "Why are we being used as the experiment, the guinea pigs, just to see what happens?"
Marilyn Smith, oblivious to the previous experiments yet still apparently Florida's representative medical expert, said neither disease has resulted in a major outbreak locally so why take the risk.
Tip to Marilyn: because the little fuckers can easily kill you. I hope this is clear enough.
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