Spike in Mosquito-Borne Infections Follow Report Bill Gates-Linked Company to Release Mosquitos in Caribbean: Puerto Rico Declares Public Health Emergency
Dengue fever is caused by the same mosquito species that was reported to be intentionally released into the Caribbean.
The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico and other nearby Caribbean islands have declared a public health emergency due to a spike in cases of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne viral illness characterized by high fever, rash, and muscle and joint pain.
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Puerto Rico’s health department has reported over 540 cases this year, marking a 350% surge in comparison to the trends observed in the past five years.
“This year, dengue cases have exceeded historical figures,” said Mellado López, head of the Puerto Rico Department of Health.
“Teams have been working on the integrated plan for prevention and control in response to arboviruses, and we will expand the implemented response. It is important to note that the increase in cases has not only been reflected in Puerto Rico, but we have seen it throughout the Americas region.”
Dengue Outbreak Follows News of Intentional Release of Bacteria-Laced Mosquitos Into Wild
The unprecedented surge in dengue cases comes just three months after The Associated Press (AP) reported two private companies, Orbit Services Partners Inc. and Verily, had partnered up in their ‘Debug’ program “to release mosquitoes across the Caribbean” that had been “bred with a bacterium.”
Verily, an Alphabet subsidiary, was formerly known as Google Life Sciences, which was heavily funded by Bill Gates.
Alphabet has also received significant funding from Gates.
Moreover, Verily’s new Chief Scientific Officer, Andrew Trister, served as the Deputy Director of Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Trister joined Verily in August 2023, according to a press release, just months before the company launched its Debug program in the Caribbean.
It’s worth noting that Gates has also dedicated $55 million to develop vaccines for dengue, signifying his financial ties to both the problem and the proposed solution.
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The bacteria involved in the Debug project, called Wolbachia, is claimed to cause male mosquitoes to become “unable to have viable offspring with wild female mosquitoes.”
The stated goal is to release bacteria-laced Aedes aegypti mosquitos into the wild, where they reproduce and pass the bacteria on to the next generation, supposedly preventing them from hatching.
This is despite Aedes aegypti being infamously difficult to control, and females of the species being aggressive daytime biting mosquitoes capable of transmitting Zika, dengue, yellow fever, and chikungunya.
“When a sterile male mates with a wild female, she’ll still lay eggs. But because those eggs won’t hatch, the next generation will be smaller,” Verily’s website claims. “We will continue to release sterile males to significantly reduce or possibly eliminate the local population.”
Paradoxically, releasing more mosquitoes into an already mosquito-infested area is supposed to lower dengue cases in humans.
While it is unclear whether the release of the mosquitos has begun, Chairman of Orbit Services Anthony DaSilva in December 2024 did confirm his company had secured license arrangements with Verily for the entire Caribbean, with the exception of the British Virgin Islands and Cuba.
This website reached out to Verily and Orbit to confirm whether they’ve begun releasing the mosquitoes, but they did not immediately respond.
Nevertheless, the Caribbean project was said to have begun in “early” 2024, per AP.
The December AP report explains:
Orbit Services Partners Inc., a company registered in Barbados, is partnering with Verily, a San Francisco-based health technology company, for the project. The companies have been meeting with government officials in the region in hopes of launching the project early next year, said Orbit chairman Anthony Da Silva.
It would target nations including Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Maarten, St. Martin, Suriname, Dominican Republic and Haiti.
Similar projects using the Wolbachia bacterium already have been implemented elsewhere in the world. Mosquitoes are infected with Wolbachia in a laboratory and then released into the wild, where they pass it on to their offspring. The bacterium prevents the dengue virus from replicating inside a mosquito’s gut.
Da Silva said the partnership has been three years in the making and was delayed by the pandemic. The proposal is still pending approval in individual Caribbean nations.
The Caribbean, along with the Americas, has reported more than 4 million dengue cases so far this year, the highest number since record-keeping began in 1980.
But now, dengue is exploding in the region.
Jamaica, Curacao, Brazil, and several other countries and territories have declared emergencies in response to the dramatic rise in dengue cases, according to Fox News.
Dr. Richard Bartlett, a 30-year Texas physician and recipient of the Texas Department of Health and Human Services Meritorious Service Award, has raised informed consent concerns surrounding the Debug project.
“I’m very concerned when Gates releases mosquitos into a population that already has mosquito-borne illnesses without the public’s consent,” Bartlett told this website.
“What kind of nut is he?” he asked referring to Gates. “Where did he go to medical school?”
Bill Gates is not a doctor.
Other Recent Gates-Tied Mosquito Projects Followed by Dengue Outbreaks
In August 2023, the United Nations (UN) World Health Organization (WHO) reported a “significant surge in dengue fever cases” in Bangladesh.
The outbreak had been escalating rapidly since June, with cases being reported in all 64 districts in the country.
The explosion in dengue cases came just a year and a half after the country began releasing irradiated mosquitoes into the population.
Starting from Jan 2022, Bangladesh and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) initiated a “four-year technical cooperation program to advance sterile mosquito technology as part of an area-wide integrated pest management program to control Aedes mosquitoes,” according local news sources.
The IAEA has been funded by the Gates Foundation.
Bangladesh used a method called the “sterile insect technique” (SIT), a “nuclear-based” technique of insect birth control whereby target insects are mass-reared and then sterilized by using radiation.
These mosquitos are released into the wild and infest areas to mate with wild females.
Like the Caribbean countries, however, after the release, Bangladesh suffered a surge in dengue infections.
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Why in the world would anyone believe anything Bill Gates says, especially when it comes to diseases? He has zero medical background, is a known eugenicist, and makes the” cure/vaccine” for said diseases!!
NPR reported that GMO mosquitoes are going to be released in El Salvador.