Sunday, January 12, 2025

"Flying Vaccinators?"

 

According to reports, researchers at the Bill Gates Foundation-backed Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands are now part of an international effort to transform mosquitoes into flying syringes. According to a recently published study in the New England Journal of Medicine, a viable method exists for using mosquitoes to deliver protection against malaria in unsuspecting humans. Say what?! Shouldn’t these folks at least by suspecting? And what about other diseases the mosquitoes themselves may be carrying?

But wait, that’s not all! Researchers say that mosquitoes could be used to deliver other payloads, too. Like what? Vaccines maybe?! Already in the works. Scientists have been working on transforming mosquitoes into “Flying vaccinators.” Shigeto Yoshida, head researcher on a 2010 study that modified mosquitoes' saliva so that it would deliver leishmania vaccines to mice (when sucking their blood), blithely noted that vaccination by insect is "just like a conventional vaccination but with no pain and no cost." What could go wrong? Who makes these decisions? Who lets the dogs mosquitoes out? What else might they want to inject us with—unsuspectingly?

Free will? Human freedoms? Bah!

Count me out. Or will I have a choice?

A little Pink Floyd paraphrasing for you to end this post:

Just a little pinprick
There'll be no more... ahh
But you may feel a little sick

There is no pain, you are receding

You have become comfortably numb

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