{"id":46827,"date":"2012-08-07T19:06:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T22:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=46827"},"modified":"2012-12-07T19:08:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T21:08:30","slug":"mosquito-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/mosquito-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosquito released"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_46829\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46829\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/014-017_Tecnociencia_198-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/014-017_Tecnociencia_198-1.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/014-017_Tecnociencia_198-1-120x84.jpg 120w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/014-017_Tecnociencia_198-1-250x174.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">MOSCAMED<\/span><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Release of Aedes in Juazeiro (BA): 80% fewer mosquitoes<span class=\"media-credits\">MOSCAMED<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>An experiment carried out in Juazeiro, in Bahia, has shown some encouraging results. There, transgenic <em>Aedes aegypti <\/em>mosquitoes, produced by the English company Oxitec, have been being released since 2011. According to the coordinator of the experiment, Professor Margareth Capurro from the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP), 80% of the mosquito population has been suppressed. Just males, which do not transmit disease, are being released. They have a modified gene that produces a protein that is fatal to the offspring that result from crossing with the normal females in the environment (<em>see <\/em>Pesquisa Fapesp <em>#180<\/em>). Meanwhile, the release of the same Oxitec mosquitoes on the Island of Key West, in the south of Florida, in the United States, is causing a contrary reaction from the local population. According to a report from the <em>Nature<\/em> issue of July 17, a petition with more than 100,000 signatures collected over a three-month period wants to prohibit the release, that aims to control the mosquito that transmits dengue fever, diagnosed in 94 people on the island since 2009. Margareth believes that what happened in Brazil was very different from what happened in the United States, where the company requested local registration and permission to carry out the experiment with the mosquito on its own. Here, the release was approved by CTNBio, the Brazilian Technical Biosafety Commission. Another company, Moscamed, also from Juazeiro, took part in the trials as well. \u201cThe \u00a0Brazilian team and the clarification for the local population before the release made all the difference,\u201d says Margareth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Released Aedes aegypti account for 80% fewer mosquitoes","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[229,237],"coauthors":[93],"class_list":["post-46827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-epidemiology","tag-genetics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46827"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=46827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}