This seems like a case to me where mankind's arrogance may have backfired on us.
Here is Oxitec back in 2015 proudly announcing that their GM mosquito
has decimated the local mosquito population in a field trial:
http://www.oxitec.com/press-release-oxitec-mosquito-works-to-control-aedes-aegypti-in-dengue-hotspo/
Releases of the genetically engineered Oxitec mosquito, commonly
known as ‘Friendly Aedes aegypti’, reduced the dengue mosquito
population in an area of Juazeiro, Brazil by 95%, well below the
modelled threshold for epidemic disease transmission.
Here is a map showing where Juazeiro is located.
Here is a map showing where all the deformed babies are being born.
Zika was first confirmed in Brazil in may of 2015, but had been seen
in other nations before. Question: Why didn't it cause an epidemic of
birth defects in any other countries? How exactly would you miss a
tenfold increase in children born with most of their brain missing? Zika
in Brazil does not seem to behave like the Zika we were familiar with
before.
How could the Zika catastrophe be linked to genetically modified mosquitoes?
