In Africa, “Burkina Faso’s military junta has suspended Target Malaria, a Gates Foundation–funded program aimed at curbing malaria by releasing genetically modified mosquitoes. Authorities ordered the project to halt all operations and destroy samples, citing sovereignty and safety concerns. The decision comes as anti-Western sentiment grows under leader Ibrahim Traoré,” a military dictator “who has cut ties with the U.S. and France while moving closer to Russia….Pro-Russian activists accuse the initiative of using Africans as ‘guinea pigs’ and pushing hidden agendas of population control. The suspension marks a major setback for global efforts to combat malaria in one of Africa’s worst-hit nations,” reports First Post Africa.
Burkina Faso’s military dictator is using artificial intelligence to create fake positive news about himself, and to falsely make it seem like he is popular and adored by celebrities like Beyonce and Justin Bieber. That has reduced popular opposition to him despite his ineffectiveness in fighting violent rebels who have seized control of a lot of villages in Burkina Faso.
Releasing mosquitoes with anti-disease properties is not just something Bill Gates does to fight tropical diseases. Such mosquito releases have been successfully done by scientists in a number of countries, to fight dengue fever and other tropical diseases. “Conservationists are releasing Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes in Hawaii to control the spread of avian malaria, which has devastated local bird populations,” reports The Doomslayer. “A group of environmental organizations have been dropping biodegradable containers of mosquitoes into honeycreeper habitats on Maui and Kauai from helicopters….The containers fall to the ground without a top, and when they land the insects escape into the forest. Critically, these are not your typical mosquitoes. They’re all males, which don’t bite, that have been reared in a lab. More importantly, they contain a strain of bacteria called wolbachia that interferes with reproduction: When those males mate with females in the area, their eggs fail to hatch.”
Brazil has similarly released millions of bacteria-infested mosquitos to fight another tropic disease, dengue fever. 2021 study found such bacteria-infested mosquitoes produced a 69% decrease in dengue fever, as well as a 56% and 37% decrease in the incidence of chikungunya and Zika, two other mosquito-borne diseases.
Such mosquitoes, infested with Wolbachia bacteria, are also being bred to fight dengue fever in Honduras, in hopes of replacing mosquitoes that spread dengue fever, with a strain of mosquitoes that doesn’t spread the disease.
