Zika control – genetic engineered mosquitoes being tried in a Florida area

The Price We Pay for Fighting Pests With Chemicals and Genetic Engineering Mercola

• Discusses “What Could Go Wrong?”

• “3.5 percent of the insects in a laboratory test actually survived to adulthood, despite carrying the lethal gene.”

It was my impression earlier this year that 0.0% of the GE mosquitoes would survive, not 3.5%

They must release new GE mosquitoes frequently (twice a month?) because of the short lifetime

See also VitaminDWiki

• Zika cost-effectiveness calculator - May 2016
  • study determined that GE mosquitoes were not a cost effective method