GE mosquitoes on the Cayman Islands
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2010-11-22 | permalink
No opposition to secretive GE mosquito trials on Cayman Islands
Oxitec had hoped to launch its first dengue fever field trial in Malaysia, but that plan has been held up by regulatory problems and criticism from some anti-GM campaigners. [...] The delay enabled the Cayman Islands, where Aedes aegypti mosquitoes arrived in 2002, to get in first. “We had no opposition,” says Angela Harris of the Cayman Islands Mosquito Research and Control Unit. “The people living in the trial area were very pleased.”
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2010-11-22 | permalink
No opposition to secretive GE mosquito trials on Cayman Islands
Oxitec had hoped to launch its first dengue fever field trial in Malaysia, but that plan has been held up by regulatory problems and criticism from some anti-GM campaigners. [...] The delay enabled the Cayman Islands, where Aedes aegypti mosquitoes arrived in 2002, to get in first. “We had no opposition,” says Angela Harris of the Cayman Islands Mosquito Research and Control Unit. “The people living in the trial area were very pleased.”
