Bill Gates Funds Project To Turn Mosquitoes Into ‘Flying Vaccinators’

NEW YORK, NY. (THECOUNT) — In a twisted turn of scientific endeavor, researchers at Leiden University Medical Center, funded by none other than the Bill Gates Foundation, have apparently decided that mosquitoes are the next best thing to traditional needles for delivering vaccines.

This latest study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, boasts about using genetically modified mosquitoes as “flying vaccinators” to combat malaria. But let’s peel back the shiny veneer of innovation. Here we have scientists, backed by one of the world’s richest men, playing God with genetics, all while conveniently sidestepping the ethical quagmire of consent.

Remember Shigeto Yoshida’s 2010 experiment? He was all about turning mosquitoes into painless, cost-effective vaccinators. Sounds great, right? Except for the small matter of people having no say in whether they want to be part of this experiment. Yoshida’s optimism was met with the reality check that no regulatory body would greenlight such a method due to concerns about safety and consent.

Yet, here we are, over a decade later, with the Gates Foundation pumping millions into projects like those at Jichi Medical University and now Leiden. They’re engineering mosquitoes to do more than just buzz annoyingly around; they’re now carriers of genetic material intended to vaccine us against our will. Sean Murphy’s 2022 “proof of concept” with human subjects seems less like a scientific breakthrough and more like a dystopian trial where human rights are an afterthought.

The Dutch researchers’ latest twist involves creating parasites (GA1 and GA2) that die before they can do real harm, but not before they’ve served their purpose of vaccinating you. In a study, they subjected 43 unsuspecting adults to mosquito bites – because why ask for permission when you can just use nature’s least favorite creature?

Bill Gates, with his fingers in numerous pies from public health to AI, seems to have taken a particular interest in manipulating biology. His foundation’s grants to Leiden in 2023, aimed at understanding vaccine responses in malaria-endemic areas, mask a more sinister theme of control over health outcomes. Gates has openly mused about the complexities of fighting malaria, likening it to a game of “whack-a-mole,” but conveniently omits the ethical conundrum his funded research creates.

The real cynicism lies in the fact that while the world grapples with genuine issues like vaccine hesitancy, access to healthcare, and ethical research practices, these projects seem more about proving what rich philanthropists can control than genuinely solving global health problems. It’s about playing god with genetics, all while the financial and political challenges Gates mentions are perhaps less about funding and more about the public’s rightful skepticism towards such unasked-for interventions.

In essence, what we’re witnessing is a new form of colonialism, not with land, but with our very biology, under the guise of philanthropy and scientific advancement. It’s a brave new world where mosquitoes, once just a nuisance, could become the silent enforcers of health policy dictated by those who can afford to play with life’s code.

Forget informed consent, privacy, or even basic human dignity; let’s just turn nature’s most annoying pest into a vehicle for our biomedical whimsies.

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