Bred mosquitoes will breed with wild species.
Bred mosquitoes will breed with wild species, such as Aedes aegypti (Aedes aegypti). The latter is the cause of the epidemics of fever zika, dengue, yellow fever and chikungunya. Mutations in the offspring of GM mosquitoes lead to rapid death of the insect.
According to representatives of the British firm oxitec mosquitoes oxitec, their factory in the city of Piracicaba, located to the Northwest of the state of são Paulo, can produce up to 60 million mosquitoes-mutants in a week. The results of five field trials were conducted from 2011 to 2014 in Panama, the Cayman Islands, as well as in the northeast Brazilian state of Bahia showed that the number of wild mosquitoes dropped by 90 percent.
GM insects have not received approval from the National Agency of health surveillance of Brazil, however, oxitec mosquitoes oxitec expect that this will happen no later than 2017. The mayor of Piracicaba has already signed with a firm four-year contract worth $ 1.1 million.
