Pandora’s Box: How GM Mosquitos Could Have Caused the Zika Virus Outbreak

counterpunch.org - by Oliver Tickell - February 2, 2016

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. . . this is the key question: how – if indeed Zika really is the problem, as appears likely – did this relatively innocuous virus acquire the ability to produce these terrible malformations in unborn human babies? . . .

. . . an interesting aspect of the matter which has escaped mainstream media attention: the correlation between the incidence of Zika and the area of release of genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitos engineered for male insterility . . .

. . . a highly significant possibility: that Oxitec’s release of its GM mosquitos led directly to the development of Brazil’s microcephaly epidemic through the following mechanism:

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