Florida health officials just declared a local state of emergency over dengue, the mosquito borne virus they call “breakbone fever” because the bone pain feels like something is snapping. Florida logged 190 locally acquired cases and one death, clustered around St. Petersburg and around Tampa. Hillsborough County spokesman Chris Wilkerson said it is “wildly unusual.” The count is the second highest in state history.
Most infections still start with travel to the Caribbean, Central and South America, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands. Officials blame Puerto Rico next door, heavy rain, and warmer weather that lets Aedes mosquitoes breed faster. Those same mosquitoes carry Zika and yellow fever.
Meanwhile Florida has already been a test bed for lab bred Oxitec released genetically modified Aedes in the Keys from 2021 to 2023 and Google’s Debug project has asked the EPA for permission to release tens of millions more bacteria carrying males in the state. Bill Gates has spent years funding the mosquito control science worldwide. The EPA said as recently as May that no new genetically engineered mosquito releases are currently authorized. But people still have a right to ask why the Epstein class that experiments with the insects is now telling you the outbreak is just weather and travel.
The suspicion is fair as a government and money question, not merely as proof of how people got sick. Florida already released genetically modified and Wolbachia mosquitoes. Billionaires and tech companies hastily fund this EPA backed imposition on the public. Officials still cannot stop the wild mosquitoes despite nearly a decade of GM Mosquitos release. Causing many to say the programs missed the mark as trust in public health wanes.
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