ABSTRACT
Americans and people all over the world are paying a horrible price for the knowledge-oblivious anxiety about modern genetic technology in plants, animals, and mosquitoes. The emphasis on the mosquito’s ability to suppress populations in spite of ecological or biological differences supported the technology as a feasible method “in preventing epidemic dengue,” although the company has yet to demonstrate its effects on disease outcomes. For mosquito-borne illnesses and vector-control programs, ethnographic insights can help refine program efforts through attending to “the political implications and limitations of public health engagement more broadly”. Stakeholders focused their attention on protecting what was also labeled a major risk factor for the reemergence of mosquito-borne illness: global travel. Another more novel method was later announced as a “birth control” project for Dengue mosquitoes. The sportswriter George Washington Sears, in the late 19th century, once described the “key mosquito” as “poisonous, virulent, persistent, and oh, so numerous,” that rendered the Florida Keys “uninhabitable”.
