Genetically Modified Mosquitoes: Aedes aegypti Release

Assignment 1Indsæt i alt ni punktummer i nedenstående tekstuddrag, og ret til stort begyndelsesbogstav.Chika hardly sleeps all night. The window is shut tight; the air is stuffy, and the dust, thick and gritty, crawls up her nose. She keeps seeing the blackened corps floating in a halo by the window, pointing accusingly at her. Finally, she hears the woman get up and open the window, letting in the dull blue of early dawn. The woman stands there for a while before climbing out. Chika can hear footsteps, people walking past. She hears the woman call out, voice raised in recognition, followed by rapid *Hausa that Chika does not understand.(…)Chika stands slowly and stretches; her joints ache. She will walk all the way back to her auntie’s home in the gated estate. Because there are no taxies, there are only army Jeeps and battered police station wagons.Assignment 2

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In 2016, voters in Key Haven, Florida, rejected a proposal to release the genetically modified mosquito in their town.(…)Officials hope the transgenic bugs will provide a safer, cheaper alternative to spraying the Aedes aegypti with insecticides.(…)These mark the first time genetically modified mosquitoes will be used in the US. But scientists monitoring a similar effort in Brazil say it has backfired.(…)Oxitec slammed the study as 'false, misleading and speculative' and said it had 'successfully provided significant suppression of the wild Aedes aegypti in Brazil.'