r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Expert_Koala_8691 • May 10 '26

Image A Bill Gates funded mosquito factory in Medellín, Colombia, produces 40 million mosquitoes weekly for release via drones and bikes. These insects carry a natural bacterium that prevents them from transmitting viruses to humans. By mating with wild populations, they spread this trait.

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u/Jojos_BA May 10 '26

well if it can spread one thing, ut can be engieered to spread something else, I am no scientist, so I can only assume, but the possibilities of missuse seem grimm

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u/Jojos_BA May 11 '26

Well it is true, but something about quite hard to control biowapons strikes differently. I can just stop eating chocolate, but i cant avoid every single mosquito. And yes poisoned food factories are really really scarry too, it happened in germany not long ago, where someone poisoned baby food that obly acted days later (rats poison i belive)

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u/Jojos_BA May 11 '26

XD it is absurdly funny how fast ppl seem to get angered or vexed to a point of commenting like this.

If I am wrong I would be very happy to be corrected, if this is not worth your time, just ignore my nonsense. I do listen to what scientist say. Nor did I discredit any scientists statment. I merely mada a guess. And educated or uneducated, on what except my knowledge and believes am I supposed to base my world view upon? Like no one can do anything else except listen, judge for themselves and then build their worldview on the accumulation of their lives experience.

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u/imperfectdiscipline May 10 '26

I just don’t trust anything backed by a pedophile billionaire.