Key West Gets A Step Closer To Genetically-Modified Mosquitoes Experiment

Ashley Lopez — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:06:39 +0000

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has agreed to work with a British company looking to test out genetically-modified mosquitoes in the U.S.

British biotechnology company Oxitec Ltd has been waiting for a U.S. federal agency to sign on as a partner so they could test out these altered mosquitoes in Key West.

In the past few years, Key West has had a problem with mosquitoes in the area spreading Dengue-- but Oxitec thinks they can kill off a large part of this mosquito population with their altered mosquitoes.

Florida Keys Bugged by Mosquitoes, Sewers

Phil Latzman — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:40:32 +0000

When it comes to swatting the big issues of the day, there's a small insect that rises above all other threats in the Florida Keys: the mighty mosquito.