Someone may have found a way to make mosquitoes even LESS appealing

I wouldn’t have thought it was possible to make mosquitoes less appealing, but someone found a way.

Not too long ago I received a note from Dr. Spreen, and in passing he mentioned Bill & Melinda Gates’ plan for putting vaccines in mosquitoes as a delivery system for the vaccines.

So…you get a mosquito bite, but no worries — you just got a free vaccine!

“Ha!” I thought. “Good one.”

Then I realized — uh oh — maybe he’s not kidding.

I googled it.

He’s not kidding.

In 2008, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation began a five-year grant program designed to “promote innovative ideas in global health.”

The first batch of $100,000 grants included a proposal “to turn mosquitoes that normally transmit disease into ‘flying syringes,’ so that when they bite humans they deliver vaccines.”

Flying syringes!

What could POSSIBLY go wrong with THAT idea!?

Sources:
“Bill Gates Funds Research Into ‘Flying Syringe’ Mosquitoes to Deliver Vaccines” Cryptogon, 10/23/08, cryptogon.com