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The company that will be releasing 750,000,000 GMO mosquitos into Florida to combat malaria & Zika which are basically eradicated in the US, Oxitec, was funded with a $5.8 million grant from.... you guessed it Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Qu… ImageImage
The mosquitoes are engineered with Gene Drive technology which uses CRISPr to modify their DNA. Gene Drives and CRISPr technology were invented primarily by MIT & Harvard geneticist George Church, who was heavily funded by Jeffrey Epstein

nature.com/articles/d4158…
Oxitec began releasing 450,000 genetically modified mosquitoes in Juazeiro, Brazil in 2013 to combat dengue fever.
In early 2015 that same region of Brazil had a huge outbreak of Zika virus & thousands of cases of microcephaly (cranial birth defect).
theantimedia.org/zika-outbreak-…
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