You won’t believe what Bill Gates has planned for mosquitoes

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

I told you recently about the development of a stress vaccine that contains modified genes attached to a herpes virus that neutralizes stress hormones.

That same day I heard from Dr. Spreen with this comment: “Attach that to Bill & Melinda Gates’ plan for putting vaccines in mosquitoes as carrier/deliverers and you have something really REALLY scary!”

Ha! Good one.

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

I googled it. And 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!?

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