{"id":38852,"date":"2020-08-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/20\/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-to-be-released-in-florida-keys\/"},"modified":"2020-08-21T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T16:10:06","slug":"genetically-modified-mosquitoes-to-be-released-in-florida-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/20\/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-to-be-released-in-florida-keys\/","title":{"rendered":"Genetically Modified Mosquitoes to Be Released in Florida Keys"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The genetically modified mosquitoes produce female offspring that die in the larval stage<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, Aug. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Hundreds of millions of genetically modified mosquitoes will be released into the Florida Keys to test if they can help control <i>Aedes aegypti<\/i> mosquitoes that carry several deadly diseases, including Zika, dengue, chikungunya, and yellow fever.<\/p>\n<p>The genetically modified mosquitoes produce female offspring that die in the larval stage. Only adult female mosquitoes bite for blood, <i>CNN<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>In the pilot project, more than 750 million of the genetically modified mosquitoes will be released in 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The plan just received final approval from local authorities after being approved by state and federal officials, <i>CNN<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/08\/19\/health\/gmo-mosquitoes-approved-florida-scn-wellness\/index.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>CNN<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The genetically modified mosquitoes produce female offspring that die in the larval stage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":38871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-38852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}