{"id":755843,"date":"2019-01-07T08:39:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T13:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=755843"},"modified":"2019-01-07T08:39:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T13:39:57","slug":"googles-parent-has-a-plan-to-eliminate-mosquitoes-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=755843","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Parent Has a Plan to Eliminate Mosquitoes Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>It\u2019s unclear what would happen if the world\u2019s disease-causing mosquitoes were done away with. The ecological role that mosquitoes play hasn\u2019t been thoroughly studied.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KRISTEN V. BROWN:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Silicon Valley researchers are attacking mosquitoes in California&#8217;s Fresno County. It&#8217;s the first salvo in an unlikely war for Google parent Alphabet Inc.: eradicating mosquito-borne diseases around the world&#8230; \u201cYou hear that little beating sound?\u201d says Kathleen Parkes, a spokesperson for Verily Life Sciences, a unit of Alphabet. She\u2019s trailing the van in her car, the windows down. \u201cLike a duh-duh-duh? That\u2019s the release of the mosquitoes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Jacob Crawford, a Verily senior scientist riding with Parkes, begins describing a mosquito-control technique with dazzling potential. These particular vermin, he explains, were bred in the ultra-high-tech surroundings of Verily\u2019s automated mosquito rearing system, 200 miles away in South San Francisco. They were infected with Wolbachia, a common bacterium. When those 80,000 lab-bred Wolbachia-infected, male mosquitoes mate with their counterpart females in the wild, the result is stealth annihilation: the offspring never hatch. Better make that 79,999. \u201cOne just hit the windshield,\u201d says Crawford&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>It\u2019s unclear what would happen if the world\u2019s disease-causing mosquitoes were done away with. The ecological role that mosquitoes play hasn\u2019t been thoroughly studied, though some scientists suggest we might be just fine without them&#8230; \u201cAfter we detected it, we did a massive and extensive effort to prevent the mosquito from establishing and eliminate it,\u201d says Jodi Holeman, the scientific services director for Fresno County\u2019s Consolidated Mosquito Abatement District. \u201cWe were not successful, in any way, shape, or form&#8221;.&#8217;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/why-google-killing-off-fresno-100025325.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6XNFVLOCB4w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KRISTEN V. BROWN: &#8216;Silicon Valley researchers are attacking mosquitoes in California&#8217;s Fresno County. It&#8217;s the first salvo in an unlikely war for Google parent Alphabet Inc.: eradicating mosquito-borne diseases around the world&#8230; \u201cYou hear that little beating sound?\u201d says Kathleen Parkes, a spokesperson for Verily Life Sciences, a unit of Alphabet. 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