Djibouti Unleashes Controversial Genetically Modified Mosquitoes | Vantage with Palki Sharma
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- Djibouti Unleashes Controversial Genetically Modified Mosquitoes | Vantage with Palki Sharma
Djibouti is combatting malaria by employing a unique tactic: utilising mosquitoes to battle mosquitoes. The East African nation has released tens of thousands of genetically engineered mosquitoes armed with a "self-limiting" gene. This bioengineered gene aims to curb mosquito populations by terminating their offspring. However, concerns have been voiced about the experimental nature of this genetic modification technique and the absence of adequate regulation. While Burkina Faso, Brazil, Panama, and India have ventured into similar endeavors, the efficacy and long-term implications of such interventions remain uncertain. The debate persists: are genetically modified mosquitoes a daring gamble or a promising solution to eradicate deadly diseases like malaria?
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If people let other precious animals go extinct, why not these dangerous mosquitoes?
Then the whole food ecosystem destroy search on TH-cam for more deatails
Food chain, if there will be no mosquitos left then entire ecosystem would be threatened to life
@@aadityatokle yes there are a lot of species that feed on them.
Half of fishes from ponds will die
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@@aadityatokleno one cares if lizards, frog, etc go extinct because they can't eat Mosquitos anymore, they are not useful In nature any way. May they go for ants to eat 😅
Popular Jurassic Park quote "Life always finds a way". Some things should happen naturally. If u force nature to change, nature fights back and results are never pretty
humans are also part of nature, unlike most species we have the power to rewrite how nature works, our actions are also part of the nature. But yes most of the time our efforts goes in vain and in worst cases bite back.
Pls what is ur solution?
@@love_cookwe never messed with nature like this before. There is always one dominant species and we are it, and if we start messing with the building blocks of nature it won't be pretty.
@@xXSweeneysXx8896 genetic modification is not a new thing, I can confidently say most of what I eat is a artificially modified food from vegetables, fruits to meats. Billions of people are out from poverty thanks to science. The luxury to go to market and buy ingredients that can't be grown for reasons of time and land have lead to humans to be productive than ever before. There are many diseases that doesn't exist in modern era due to vaccines, diseases which have been eradicated like smallpox, plague etc..
There has always been risk associated with all of this but its required as it was necessary, and necessity is the mother of invention that dilutes into the definition of existence in the future.
not gonna lie, mosquito is a real problem ... these days good night, etc even dont work
This could easily be turned into a bio weapon. don't tell me they're not thinking of using it in such a manner
Chinese already looking into it😂😂
Part of the depopulation .
@@bharathkumar.s3961maybe they have already created it just like COVID 19
@@souvikpal7309Don't forget A.I.D.s and Lyme disease
They are being made with that purpose by gates .
Gates and mosquito and digital I'D. only in Africa. How much did he pay to buy Africa to use as his own human lab .
He don't even pay them 😂
@@Buna5689the fact that you would think this evil behaviour is funny is beyond me, trust me karma always comes back around ten fold.
@@CopperSkinnedMami I don't think any evil behaviour is funny, but the funny thing is their stupidity, if that is 100% true.
He's busy fitting his own micro chips into African new borns and children as we speak.
Why are African countries so keen to let this man use their children as guinea pigs.
He released some of genetically modified Mosquitos, last year in an area of America.
Result. There was an outbreak of malaria.
Not only Africa is going Thur this others as well are affected by some of the circumstances done without your knowledge to get a reaction or behavioral opinion, mob mentality thinking do they really want to wake up a sleeping giant I know there are good people fighting the good fight against these mosquitoes natural herbs and plants is one of many way people fight these insects
This tech has been tried in Brazil without adverse effects.
Thats good to know. 👍
What for the past 3 years? You can't determine effects for a brief amount of time
Source?!
@@erlinacobrado7947 First, not three years - fifteen years. Second, a mosquito life span is a few weeks. Three years is multiple generations. Third, all sorts of adverse effects have been reported, but only by rather stupid opponents of the technology. For example, the new disease Zika was first seen in Brazil in a city with the same name as another Brazilian city where the GMO mosquitoes had been successfully released and tested. The Zika city had the same name, but was about five hundred miles away from where the GMO mosquitoes were released.
Fact is, Bill Gates k!11€d thousands of people in Brazil.
India needs it too!
be careful what you wish for!
Nah, Agarbatti se kam chal jata hai
Not yet!
It can become dangerous
2:55-3:06 = listen this timeframe
Djibouti may want to begin by closing down the foreign military bases on its soil. African leaders need to recognize that Western forces aim to keep Africa embattled with one crisis after another to maintain dominance of the continent and exploit our natural resources. When they leave the problems they are manufacturing will disappear.
It’s still colonized. Djibouti was called “French Somaliland” up intil the 60’s when colonization was ending but the french never really let go of their colonial lands do they put a sham election to either go back to somalia since the people are somali or become a country and essentially remain a colony. Since it was in a great location right in the middle of a world trade route they kept there and to hide their hand gave every ally of theirs a military base there. They kept somalia in chaos for over 50 years to keep it from becoming whole again because there wouldn’t be military bases and everything else that comes along with it.
Mosquitoes are part of the food chain. Bats, dragon flies, frogs eat them and many plants also use them for pollination. Once they are wiped out, there will be a crash of other dependent species.
Mosquitoes don't survive and breed in cold climates. Cold places have plenty of plants and food. Pollination happens with other relatively harmless insects like flies. The presence of mosquito in nature is extremely deadly for humans. I say, their removal is definitely a big step to ensure human survival, and make the world safer place. The benefit achieved from their removal far outweighs any benefit obtained from their presence.
@@kumardigvijaymishra5945 cold places are okay but what about hot places?
@@agniswar3 My statement is about mosquitoes should be removed all together because in hot places pollination can be achieved by relatively harmless insects, and the ecosystem can still function without deleterious effects.
There are many many species of mosquitoes, but only a few carry human diseases. No known animal species limits its diet to only the one species being targeted here. But it is worse than that. Other methods of controlling mosquitoes all use methods that kill many different species of mosquitoes, which much more reduces the food supplies of the bats, frogs, dragon flies - you forgot fish. And most of these methods use poisons.
Think about poison control of mosquitoes. When a mosquito comes in contact with a poison, it doesn't instantly drop dead. It is first weakened, which makes it the easiest prey for a predator. So the predator eats the poison and biologically concentrates it. You don't understand that targeting the one single nasty species, without poisons, is a way of PROTECTING the mosquito predators, the frogs, bats, dragon files and fish.
sadidaahmed7226, you have it backwards. Start at the beginning of the video where you see the current methods Djibouti is using to control mosquitoes, spraying poisons around. These methods do kill some mosquitoes. But they kill mosquitoes of any and all species, most of which do not bite people and most of which do not spread malaria. So the bats, dragon flies, frogs, etc. who eat mosquitoes are harmed by each mosquito killed. Instead, the genetically modified mosquito method kills only the one problem species. But it's worse than that. The spraying method doesn't just kill more of the mosquitoes that the bats, dragon flies and frogs (and birds and fish) eat. The sprayed mosquitoes don't just instantly drop dead and disappear. They are weakened, so that they are easy prey, and since they are the easy prey, they are the first mosquitoes that get eaten, and that means eaten with the poison from the spray.
I would bet that you don't like the idea of eating food that has been protected from insects using poisonous chemicals. Wouldn't you give the bats and frogs the same consideration?
Your work and analytical approach is excellent about these bio engineered mosquitoes.
So far I know Singapore used it and got huge success .
General public are so uneducated regarding GMO that’s it is almost depressing at times to see the lack of knowledge and politicizing the topic. Palki, GMO doesn’t mean controversial.
GMO is dangerous .
getting major Dubai flood vibes on this one
The concern is not currently modified mosquito but how they will modify themselves to survive and that could lead to even more dangerous mosquito that nature will produce.
So the best thing is don't do anything and stay still.
Why did humans bother to come out of the stone age?
If the bioengineering mentioned is a solution against mosquito menace why don't we go for it. Commonsense says that there is no harm in it. The option it seems had been identified for a while now but the prevalence continues to be widespread and acute. In this scenario, in the absence of interventions, the option would be to get used to the natural conditions rather than isolating ourselves taking great pain, considering tidying the surroundings etc being expensive option.
This is a sound biologic approach rather than relying on chemicals. The approach is not meant to exterminate all but to do a solid takedown.
Gates has been a chief advocate on this. We have a district called nchelenge in our country and there is serious mosquitos. But am sure gates and his team unleashed these in that district
zambia?
what diseases are occurring there?
Don't trust anything Bill Gates does.
You are sure of this?
Chairman Mao didn't know what wiping out the sparrows was going to do until it was done, I wonder what the function of malaria carrying mosquitos is in nature? I guess we'll find out once they're gone...I hope it's not too bad.
india needs this technology too.
Copycat 😂
Modified mosquitoes are normally released by US, China , Thailand , Malaysia, Indonesia , Singapore , Vietnam to fight mosquito-borne illnesses.
My question, why females are against males, either female mosquitoes or human females?
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Nothing new, Cayman islands and other places did this and it failed..don't know why they are trying it again . Our mosquitos are like on steroids since then
Oh, it failed? In what way did it fail? Don't you realize that this method is not a once and done control? If the regular release of the modified male mosquitos is stopped, the targeted species will and does recover. It is supposed to. A major caution designed into the GMO mosquito strategy is that if it has any bad effect at all, that effect will be correctable by simply stopping the release.
What was done in the Cayman Islands was a test to determine how much the Aedes egyptii mosquito population would be reduced. Failed would mean that the reduction was not able to be measured correctly. That's not what happened. The data was measured. Maybe you think the measured reduction was too much or was too little. Maybe you didn't like the measured number for one or the other of those reasons.
After a while poison becomes useless against RAT and Cockroaches
What if the mutant becomes more deadly with new disease
I understand : male mosquitoe here, no biting, no disease, ..no female will survive so end the disease transmission by this meaning.
What a strange question? A mosquito that cannot reproduce will not adapt to become more deadly. It will adapt to become dead.
We see mosquitoes as nuisance but mother nature knows why they are here.
Gene modification or Gene splicing is both good on one hand and dangerous on the other as the risks are unknown.
This has been used in Malaysia for the past 4 to 5 years and it has yeald good results
If this works, then the benefits out weights any consequences. Malaria is a menace in Africa
This. All the scared people don't even barely understand the technology. They are still stuck with jurassic park ideas
i do fumigation especially with frankinscence cake ( pure) or aparajitha dhoopa choornam ( from sita ram pharmacy) both have mosquito repellant action 2nd one is group of medicinal plants and 1st one i think is composed of frankinscensce only .also both has other health benifits gives a good sleep by calming mind* both. fumigation sticks r also available.but chooranm ( powder form) is what i felt is benificial
First of all,there’s no place is safe on planet earth. The unforeseen dangers are lurking everywhere…
This is going to backfire big time on them....
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Also, what if the mosquitoes adapt to this....
before entering to home after coming from outside everytime take bath and washing d clothes wored outside( irrespective of what event is)
If Africa can solve malaria and malnutrition it can develop well. So the use of modern technologies Africa need to be embraced and need to be taken with good opinions under good guidance by the experts and leaders.
The jabuutian people should do something
No Palki, Uganda is not keen. We are not sure about the side effects.
I hope this does not turn round like the cloud seeding in Dubai
There was a film in America called mimic in the 90s that dealt with this type of thing.
They did it in singapore. It is called the Walbachia experiment. There was no public consent solicited to be experimented on AND only an announcement that the State would release such mozzies into the wild as if public opinion did not matter, as if consent was not required and as if the State could do whatever it wanted whenever it wanted on the civillian population.
jillybean, the Wolbachia experiment is not about releasing GMO mosquitoes. It is a completely different idea for mosquito control. Wolbachia is a bacteria which gives mosquitoes a non-fatal disease, which can spread to other mosquitoes. I think it is logical to make a researched choice about which of the two methods is best, safest, cheapest, or whatever matters most to you.
nothing is safe am even bugining to ban my cat from entering my room.
these things already went wrong last time... bat...
its only "Controversial " because its from AFRICA
This technology is not more unsafe than gmo crops. Gmo crops = more food, hight profits. Gmo mosquitoes = less malaria cases/less death and less profits for pharmaceutical companies.
Desesperate times desesperate measures.
More science needed
3:28 that guy is definitely from mosquito killing company using chemicals😊
What about the female mosquitoes that identify as male?
Lol 😂
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This journalist is about as good as it gets. Articulate, concise and informative. Also easy on the eyes. Bravo
"Nature always finds a way" - Famous Movie dialogue.
I am sure interfering with nature like this will have no effect in the future. 👍
A more logical response would have been to domestic and produce more predators of the mosquitoes like mosquitofish, bats, frogs, etc
Simple solution is to keep ur environment clean and develop the medical and environmental infrastructure
We badly need these mosquitoes
no you don't
In guyana south america we have observed that from the starting of the may-june rain season the mosquitoes have serged which is not abnormal but they seems to me resistant to any insectocides
This techniques can help to reintroduce the susceptibility genes
Do you imply that nothing should be done ? What is evolutional technology for
imagine if someone build a boom out of mosquto
They have been released international
So firstpost has a new African news anchor but she doesn’t deliver African news… what’s the point of having her?
She does but you're sleeping 💤
she delivers only her self opinion and create confusion. Bringing one person that absolutely not lives in Djibouti....without giving the countries to express his point. Another condescendant opinion based journalist...pathetic
Thanks For The Update But Djibouti it's in North Africa Not East Africa!
Djibouti is in Horn of Africa, it was the oriental part of Abyssinia current Ethiopia in 1900.
What could go wrong?Jeesh.
After being bitten the people become infertile, and there is a massive depopulation on the entire planet
Isn't there natural plants and herbs that mosquitoes naturally don't like
In the 1960s there were researches on making Mosquitoes sterile. I do not know about the progress of that research. I read that in a novel by a Bengali writer Shankar.
I can tell you about that. The 1960's experiments tried to make the males sterile by exposing them to nuclear radiation. That made the sterile, but it weakened them so much that that they were not very successful at mating with the female mosquitoes. The GMO mosquitoes are no less effective at mating than are wild mosquitoes.
Palki, Ghana has been overtaken by deadly mosquitoes. Ghanaians are dying from mosquito bites and no one is doing anything about it. Let the world know about the hell ghanaians are living in right now.
Marvel introduces new superhero: MosquitoMan.. MosquitoWoman? MosquitoBoy? 😅
Once all the kinks are worked out, they'll be used in Europe.
For the first time something from Djibouti they be so silent
Waaaah, i thought this country only existed in geographical Studies, damn, thats nce to her again about it.
Sci-fi flick material
Olden days Frogs used to eat all mosquito and flys. No no frogs
Good topic. Mosquitos are too smart. They multiply fast. In America they tell us not to use sprays to kill them. We need different solutions.
lotta things to consider. hope they got the top guys working on this. unknown unknowns could be a mofo
The dark continent ... is always grappling .... ❤
Is apple lightning to 3.5mm adapter enough to get clearity out of these two?? Dolby and looseless is turned on
Not the first in east africa jkuat university in kenya did this project over seven years ago
Mosquitos being paid well by Aliens to attack randomly
where are the animal activist?
We need this in kenya
They will mutate and reproduce a lot after mutation😮
Please do the same for Home-Lizards.
Hope it works
Make sense👍
Nice !! Next series : Mosquito Man 😂
What could possibly go worng? None of the mosquito control would be necessary without global warming.
[None of the mosquito control would be necessary without global warming.] I'm all for trying to limit or reverse global warming, but mosquito spread of malaria has been a horrible problem for as long as human beings have existed.
Here's something you may not know. There is a disease called sickle cell anemia, which is especially common in Africa. It is a genetic disease, and the genes that cause it should be eliminated by evolution, except for the unfortunate fact that the gene has a good effect. It makes the person with ONE such a gene have some resistance to malaria. If you have TWO such genes, you get the sickle cell anemia and probably die.
Put a Black African anchorwoman for South Africa !!!
They should buy some of our modified flies.
We genetically modified flies so they couldn't procreate but desire Mosquito Meet.
When mosquitoes start increasing in population we release them And these modified flies will eat their heads.
Bet =corona mosquito = marona😂
Genetically modified mosquitos will turn into a better way to transmit diseases since modifying things has unexpected consequences.
Modifying things has unexpected consequences? What about sticking to the old ways? That has EXPECTED consequences, people dying painful deaths in large numbers.
Testing ground for billa bhai. 👍
Think like a God in big picture, not like humans in smaller picture.
Yo creo que no es la sulucion de modifications
The safety has NOT been proven!!! Look at the results in Brazil !!!!!!
You should trust the Brazilians to look at the results in Brazil.
I bet you heard either of these two reported "negative effects" :
1) Some of the modified mosquitoes offspring did not die, and are now mixed into the local mosquito population. It's a complicated story, but it was published in a scientific paper by a collection of authors, most of who have claimed that they didn't make any such claim.
2) When the method was used in a Brazilian city, whose name I have forgotten, anti-GMO groups spread the story that zika had appeared there for the first time ever. In fact, zika had appeared for the first time ever in a different Brazilian city with the same name, several hundred miles away.
We've all seen jurassic park right?
Well, this started out as a seemingly positive report about a useful technology that could reduce the prevalence of malaria, and in the last few minutes it degenerated into a wild flood of imaginary dangers, starting with the quote from Barry Wray.
First, this is not an untested technology. It causes none of the imagined dangers. Every imagined danger has been either proven to not exist, or made to not exist by revising the technology. The company that developed the technology has proceeded with the utmost caution, first conducting laboratory tests over years, then trying test releases on uninhabited islands, and finally in populated areas. All the while it has been plagued with opposition, opposition generated by a highly organized and clever group spreading lies, and inspiring useful idiots to pass those lies along.
Every time stories about the GMO mosquitos appear where people can leave comments, the comments always include ignorant comments. There is always someone claiming that mosquitoes are necessary to support animals which eat them. But there are hundreds of mosquito species and this is the ONLY way to combat only the single species that spreads a disease. And no animal that eats mosquitoes depends on this one species. In fact, this stupid comment is made even when the release of the modified mosquitoes is in an area like Florida or Texas where the targeted species is an invasive species.
Another expressed foolish concern is that the mosquitoes will adapt and become established. The mosquitoes are ALREADY established. They are already causing needless diseases. Other methods are already in use to attempt to control them, mostly spraying poisons that would kill ALL kinds of mosquitoes. And poisons don't kill mosquitoes instantly. The poisoned insect is weakened and becomes the easiest prey for mosquito predators, who are therefore poisoned themselves.
Another foolishness - the GMO trait will become established in the wild population. This is so-called micro-evolution. Any gene that gives a species a marginal advantage will be expected to spread into the larger population. Yes, but is being unable to reproduce really an advantage?
Can the novel gene spread to humans? No. The only released mosquitoes with the novel gene are males, which do not bite humans. The females who do bite humans will not have the new gene. What about if some genetically modified mosquitoes are accidentally released? That might spread the novel gene to their descendants (who will die) but not to victims they bite. I have been mosquito-bitten many times and I haven't grown wings or developed a yen to suck blood.
I believe Firstpost originates in India. It is worth noting that India has a history of complete incompetence in regulating GMO technologies. Much of the world has benefited by planting genetically modified crops that offer huge advantages to farmers. The first such GMO crop offered to India was an insect resistant cotton. Indian regulators wisely required pre-release testing, which went on for years, always proving advantages and never showing any dangers, but the regulators would not approve releasing the technology to farmers. Finally an unscrupulous Indian seed company stole some of the GMO cotton seeds, reproduced them, and began selling them as its own variety, not calling them GMO so that they were not regulated at all. A few years later, in one part of India, the insect pest outbreak was so severe that almost all the cotton farms in that area were completely barren, except for a few that were as productive as ever. That was the farms that had grown the stolen GMO cotton. India's response to that was to demand that the GMO cotton be destroyed, but the local farmers, both those who did and those who didn't plant the better variety, demanded that the government do just the opposite, approve the seed so that other farmers could plant it. This finally happened in 2004 and today, twenty years later, the overwhelming majority of Indian cotton farmers grow GMO insect resistant cotton. The farmers themselves, in addition to making more money, are not experiencing the frequent self-poisoning that comes from accidents with spraying poisons. Yet in the subsequent twenty years, India has yet to approve any other kind of genetically engineered crop, including a rice variety with vitamin A, an insect resistant kind of brinjal (the Indian name for eggplant), and a GMO variety of mustard (not the spice mustard but a leafy crop) with a trait that makes it easy to use in developing hybrid crops. These last mentioned were developed not by profit seeking companies but by public spirited scientists, mostly scientists in India.
You said the Zika is from Brazil🙂en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zika_Forest
Weaponized? Mosquitoes? Come on lady.
Simply use mosquito net.
Who own the technology?Who is behind the program?
There is no country called Djibouti. it's becomes a shop for small family
India suffers from mosquitos too, you can't sleep
You eliminate one level of the chain, you will have unexpected backlashes from Nature.
what if this targeted subspecie represent less than 10% of the whole mosquitoe populations
@@LUCTRIGORD they are not targeting the subspecies. Plus there is no control over those mosquitoes travelling across borders.
What if the females begin to find out which are modified and which isn't causing them to become asexual and to eliminate the males.
That is an intelligent question. There is another genetic modification approach, called a gene drive, which could make evolution wipe out the species once and for all, but most scientists consider that to have unforeseen consequences. The scheme we are talking about, unlike the gene drive, can be undone - by simply not releasing any more of the modified mosquitoes.
Where is UN.... Un didn't help....
This world will play in own role to eliminate human existence.which we all know