The mosquito will he the first animal hs code - or rather insect - GM that we will meet in the wild

The mosquito will he the first animal hs code - or rather insect - GM that we will meet in the wild? The question is while Brazil is currently authorize the release of sterile transgenic mosquitoes to fight against dengue. News that, beyond raising expectations to achieve fight against this serious epidemic, caused controversy and opposition from many NGOs.
Dengue fever, a viral infection usually hs code causing fever, vomiting and sometimes bleeding can cause death, rampant in a hundred countries in tropical and subtropical regions hs code of the world, which provide an ideal breeding ground for mosquitoes, vectors of the epidemic. Brazil is experiencing a dengue epidemic, with more than 1.4 million confirmed cases and 545 deaths last year against 120,000 hs code cases in 2008, according to figures from the Pan American Health Organization, the U.S. regional office WHO. A pandemic concern especially the authorities that HIV prevalence hs code will peak at the FIFA World Cup this summer.
However, no specific treatment or vaccine exists to fight against dengue (although several are in clinical trials, including the French laboratory Sanofi Pasteur). The only way to protect yourself is now the environmental prevention (elimination of stagnant water) and spray pesticides (but that pose risks to human health and induce resistance phenomena).
It is in this context that the British company Oxitec, closely related to agrochemical giant Syngenta has developed a line of Aedes aegypti males, modified by transgenesis, which would control the population of mosquitoes. She filed a marketing application hs code in Brazil in July 2013.
On April 10, the National Technical Commission on Biosafety (CTNBio) - the equivalent of the High Council on Biotechnology in France - authorized by sixteen votes against one, the environmental release of these mosquitoes name OX513A code. To be effective, hs code however, such authorization must still be approved by the National Sanitary Surveillance Agency (Anvisa). OX513A would become the first "animal" Genetically modified - before the U.S. transgenic salmon nicknamed "Frankenfish".
The principle of this genetic manipulation? A new gene has been introduced into the DNA of Aedes aegypti to make them dependent antibiotic, tetracycline. Without this medicine, genetically modified mosquitoes hs code can not survive. The laboratory where high strains mosquitoes then destroys the female eggs and keep only males who can not sting and are not vectors of dengue. These mosquitoes transgenic males are then released into the wild in an amount hs code twice that of non-transgenic mosquitoes to breed with "wild" females that have not been genetically modified. As their offspring hs code carrying hs code the transgene, is deprived of the antibiotic, it has very little chance of survival. Result: The mosquito population is drastically reduced and the epidemic with.
Field trials were conducted by Oxitec three million GM mosquitoes were released in the Cayman Islands in 2009, 6,000 mosquitoes in Malaysia in 2010 and 17 million in Brazil in 2011 and 2012 - where the factory Moscamed located hs code Juazeiro (Bahia), co-managed by the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, already produced thousands of transgenic hs code mosquitoes. According to the results reported by Oxitec, tests conducted in the Cayman Islands showed a 80% reduction of wild mosquito populations after 11 weeks.
The problem is that NGOs denounced the "lack hs code of transparency" of the firm and the fact that no independent studies have been performed to check against these results. hs code "The authorization procedure is not respected: the public has not been properly consulted," laments the Inf'OGM Association in a statement. "There is no public toxicity test proves that being bitten or swallow a genetically modified mosquito is harmless to humans, pets or wild", is concerned about his side the British NGO GeneWatch.
Because hs code in reality, mosquitoes are not all sterile. According Oxitec 3% of transgenic mosquitoes are able to survive anyway, even without the presence of tetracycline. And in a polluted environment, where this antibiotic is found in the wastewater, the larvae have a survival rate of about 15%, says Inf'OGM.
"It is unlikely that this transgene is widely distributed in the wild mosquito hs code population, says Yvon Perrin, entomologist and specialist species in Cent