Why do some people think that they are at risk of forced vaccination from GMO mosquito drones funded by Bill Gates?
The usual suspects…
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So what’s the true story?
“One Seattle morning, Carolina Reid sat in a room with nine other volunteers, each waiting to take part in a clinical trial for a new, experimental malaria vaccine.
Reid’s turn came. She put her arm over a cardboard box filled with 200 mosquitoes and covered with a mesh that keeps them in but still lets them bite. “Literally a Chinese food takeout container” is how she remembers it. A scientist then covered her arm with a black cloth, because mosquitoes like to bite at night.”
A box of 200 mosquitoes did the vaccinating in this malaria trial. That’s not a joke!
Well, there was a clinical trial of an experimental malaria vaccine.
“We use the mosquitoes like they’re 1,000 small flying syringes,” explains University of Washington, Seattle physician and scientist Dr. Sean Murphy, lead author on a paper in Science Translational Medicine released on August 24 detailing the vaccine trials.
The insects deliver live malaria-causing Plasmodium parasites that have been genetically modified to not get people sick. The body still makes antibodies against the weakened parasite so it’s prepared to fight the real thing.
A box of 200 mosquitoes did the vaccinating in this malaria trial. That’s not a joke!
But they aren’t using GMO mosquitoes.
Instead, the mosquitoes contain weakened versions of the malaria-causing Plasmodium parasites.
Why?
So that you will hopefully make antibodies without getting full-blown malaria!
But why use mosquitoes?
“He and his colleagues went this route because it is costly and time consuming to develop a formulation of a parasite that can be delivered with a needle.”
A box of 200 mosquitoes did the vaccinating in this malaria trial. That’s not a joke!
They used mosquitoes simply because it was easier.
The final vaccine, if developed, would be delivered in a syringe, though.
What else?
The mosquitoes were in a cardboard box in a lab.
“Reid's turn came. She put her arm over a cardboard box filled with 200 mosquitoes and covered with a mesh that keeps them in but still lets them bite.”
A box of 200 mosquitoes did the vaccinating in this malaria trial. That’s not a joke!
So, only people who signed up for the experiment were exposed.
And no, Bill Gates was not involved in this study.
It is true that he has been involved in genetically modified mosquitoes, but only to help reduce mosquito populations, not vaccinate people.
Bottom line - there is no plan to use mosquitoes to vaccinate people. In addition to the issue of informed consent, you would not be able to control the dose or ensure consistent delivery.
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A box of 200 mosquitoes did the vaccinating in this malaria trial. That’s not a joke!
A genetically engineered Plasmodium falciparum parasite vaccine provides protection from controlled human malaria infection
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