Google is preparing to unleash an army of 32 million mosquitoes across California and Florida \u2014 and it insists this is good for you.<\/p>\n
The tech giant\u2019s little-known Debug initiative has filed a request with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for an experimental use permit to release specially treated male\u00a0Culex<\/em>\u00a0mosquitoes infected with\u00a0Wolbachia<\/em>, a naturally occurring bacteria. The plan: when these lab-treated males mate with wild female mosquitoes, their offspring do not survive. Over time, Google engineers believe this biological suppression will reduce mosquito populations and curb the spread of diseases including West Nile virus, St. Louis encephalitis, dengue, Zika, chikungunya, and yellow fever. The EPA is currently reviewing the proposal and accepting public comment.<\/p>\n Read more at: israel365news.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Google is preparing to unleash an army of 32 million mosquitoes across California and Florida \u2014 and it insists this is good for you. The tech giant\u2019s little-known Debug initiative has filed a request with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for an experimental use permit to release specially treated male\u00a0Culex\u00a0mosquitoes infected with\u00a0Wolbachia, a naturally occurring … Continue reading Google is Playing God With Mosquitoes. The Last Time Someone Tried That, It Didn\u2019t End Well for Egypt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/pale_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6Vk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26619,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26618\/revisions\/26619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}