Millions more mosquitoes being released in the USA — any risks?

Aedes Mosquito (Muhammad Mahdi Karim)

Millions more mosquitoes being released in the USA — any risks?
Writer: Dr. Bob Thiel | Digital Narration

COGwriter

Google is now involved with the release of millions of mosquitoes:

Good vs bad mosquito: What is Google’s plan to fight pest-borne deadly diseases?

2 June 2026

Google plans to release millions of mosquitoes into the United States in a new project aimed at curbing mosquito-borne diseases by releasing more “good bugs” instead of fighting them.

Mosquitoes are responsible for around 700,000 to 1 million human deaths worldwide every year, making the flying pests the deadliest insect on the planet. …

To address this problem, Google is working on project Debug, which aims to release more “good bugs” than “bad bugs” into the environment.

Now, the American tech company has asked for the United States’ approval to release up to 64 million mosquitoes over two years in California and Florida. …

“We’re trying to stop bad mosquitoes by raising and releasing good ones,” reads Google’s Debug website.

“Our good bugs are male mosquitoes that have a naturally-occurring bacteria called Wolbachia, which makes them unable to have offspring with wild female mosquitoes.”

When a wild female mates with a sterile male, her eggs will not hatch, reducing the population with each generation and thus stopping transmission. Female mosquitoes transmit diseases such as dengue, malaria and yellow fever when they feed on human or animal blood — which they use as protein to develop their eggs — and pass on pathogens in the process. …

One of the approaches — the one used for the possible California and Florida release — is infecting mosquitoes with Wolbachia.

Unlike chemical pesticides or insecticides, which can harm ecosystems, the Wolbachia method uses no toxins and involves no genetic modification — making it safe for humans and the environment.

Mosquitoes do not naturally carry viruses; they only get them from infected people, and since only female mosquitoes bite humans, they are the only ones that can transmit diseases. Therefore, only male mosquitoes are part of the program.

The project plans to raise millions of sterile bugs, separate males from females, and release them into the wild.

“Releasing the right number of good bugs in the right places is critical, so we’re building software and monitoring tools to guide each release,” the project page notes.

What mosquitoes are they targeting?

There are over 3,000 mosquito species, which transmit hundreds of diseases and viruses, but not all of them are equally deadly.

Around 40% of the world is at risk of contracting a disease from one specific mosquito, the Aedes aegypti.

This bug is responsible for most cases of dengue, Zika, yellow fever and chikungunya, which together account for tens of thousands of deaths a year worldwide. https://www.euronews.com/health/2026/06/02/good-vs-bad-mosquito-what-is-googles-plan-to-fight-pest-borne-deadly-diseases

Someone sent me an email related to this project last week. I responded with:

Yes, I heard about this.

While there have been issues with previous releases, one day I suspect that there will be at least temporal success with malaria.

Yet, notice the following from 2023:

July 4, 2023

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on June 26, 2023, that five cases of locally transmitted malaria had been identified – four in Florida and one in Texas – since May 2023. These are the first cases of locally acquired mosquito-borne malaria in the U.S. since 2003. …

There could be several factors driving the emergence of locally acquired malaria. https://kiowacountypress.net/content/locally-transmitted-malaria-us-could-be-harbinger-rising-disease-risk

Related to the release of genetically-modified mosquitoes in Florida in 2021, I wrote:

While some genetically-altered mosquito projects may well assist with disease control, they pose many risks.

The scientific reality is that there is no way that items like genetically-modified mosquitoes can be so thoroughly tested in a lab to be released in the wild without any risk.

Why?

A laboratory environment simply cannot test every possible variable in the real world (that is also a reality when it comes to things like COVID-19 vaccines–particularly the mRNA ones).

The release of genetically-modified mosquitoes in Florida is a dangerous risk. (Thiel B. DM: Florida residents claim ‘pest control trial’ that will release up to a BILLION genetically engineered mosquitos in the Keys to reduce species carrying diseases is ‘TERRORISM’. COGwriter, April 27, 2021)

Could there be any connection to genetically-modified mosquitoes released in Florida and malaria that popped up in the USA?

Bill Gates tweeted the following back in 2015:

Since then, he got involved with genetically-modified mosquitoes:

Questions Remain on Bill Gates & Genetically Altered Mosquitoes

July 3, 2023

According to the AP (A Bill Gates-tied mosquito project is not responsible for recent US malaria cases | AP News), the cases of malaria that have recently popped up in the United States were NOT related to Bill Gates, his funding of “mosquito research” related disease prevention (Gates-Funded World Mosquito Program Engages in Gain-of-Function Research – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics), or Oxitec’s (another Gates supported company) release of genetically modified mosquitoes for the past several years in Florida where the outbreaks occurred (see the previous two articles).

The AP has noted that the Gates Foundation does fund malaria work and GMO mosquitoes but states it’s funding for Oxitec’s genetically altered mosquitoes that are being released in Florida (where those mosquitoes are released) does not include any modifications related to malaria, and so they could not be the cause. …

For my part, I admit I cannot prove any relationship exists, but I completely understand why people would ask the question. https://www.americaoutloud.com/questions-remain-on-bill-gates-genetically-altered-mosquitoes/

To claim that since the intent of the genetic-modification was not to increase susceptibility to malaria does not mean that could not have been the result. Humans simply do not know all the consequences, intended or otherwise, when they genetically-alter living things. While that does not mean that the Gates mosquitoes resulted in malaria in the USA–the fact is that it is in the USA now.

In Brazil, they tried modifying mosquitoes so that they cannot pass Dengue fever:

There are factories in Brazil where one of the most reviled creatures known to humans is being bred intentionally by the millions – mosquitoes. Now, the folks who work in these high-tech factories will tell you these are not your grandmother’s mosquitoes. They are actually designed to protect people from the diseases that mosquitoes carry. It’s a major investment for Brazil, one that other countries, especially in the Americas, are keeping an eye on. https://www.iowapublicradio.org/2025-07-31/brazil-aims-to-reduce-dengue-with-modified-mosquitoes

Yet, according to one report I saw, the amount of mosquitoes increased after that was tried (see https://www.globalresearch.ca/gene-edited-catastrophe-brazil/5690917).

That said, the release of genetically-modified mosquitoes has been tried also, but the results were not as the proponents hoped:

Deadly ‘super mosquitoes that are even tougher’ accidentally created by scientists after bungled experiment

Updated September 18, 2019

GENETICALLY modified mosquitoes that were designed by scientists to help populations decrease are actually thriving.

This is according to new research that claims the plan to create gene-hacked mosquitoes that have offspring which die immediately has spectacularly backfired and now scientists don’t know what will happen next.

The modified mosquitoes were released in Jacobina in Brazil and were supposed to mix with the local population and decrease numbers with their weak offspring genetics.

Although the wild population did plummet for a short while, 18 months later it was right back up again.

This is mostly concerning because scientists think the new ‘super mosquitoes’ have properties that might make them harder to kill.

Research about the pests has been published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports. …

Mosquitoes like the Aedes aegypti variety that was edited can carry dangerous diseases like yellow fever, Zika virus and Malaria.

This is why efforts are being made to reduce their numbers.

However, now traces of the genetically modified genes have been found in the natural population.

This means they are successfully interbreeding. …

The offspring of the gene-hacked mosquitoes and the natural ones are thought to be more robust but whether they pose a threat is unknown.

Researcher Jeffrey Powell told News Atlas: “It is the unanticipated outcome that is concerning.” https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/9947305/deadly-super-mosquitoes-accidentally-created/

So, at least some scientists have been concerned about “the unanticipated outcome.” Having mosquitoes that are “more robust” makes them harder to kill and, thus tends to increase their longevity.

Well, I anticipated something just like this when I reported about the release of GMOs mosquitoes on July 28, 2018. Here are some of my posted warnings.

Mosquitoes can carry and spread many diseases.

But releasing genetically-modified ones into the wild presents unknown risks.

One assumption that scientists have tended to make with genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) is that if they do not see any dangers, then there are none. That is foolish, yet that continues to be the view of the pro-GMO crowd.

While there certainly are risks associated with contracting the Zika virus (see Zika is more dangerous than many thought; USA has its first Zika death), this ‘solution’ poses risks to various parts of the ecosystem as well as the possibility that some of the offspring produced will have greater longevity as opposed to greatly reduced longevity.

The vast quantity of mosquito offspring increases the possibility that there will be some that have the opposite traits that the GMO crowd is hoping to get. And if this occurs, this could cause much greater problems than the GMO ‘solution’ was supposed to fix. …

Genetically modified mosquitoes pose dangerous risks. (Thiel B. Genetically-modified mosquitoes have been released to ‘fight Zika’. COGwriter, July 28, 2018)

GMOs and various biological changes can be very dangerous precisely because scientists CANNOT ANTICIPATE all the potentially negative outcomes.

Super-mosquitoes are a health-risk. Sterilized ones may have benefits, but they may also trigger other problems and even pestilences.

Notice some of what Jesus warned would happen prior to the start of the Great Tribulation during the beginning of sorrows:

7…And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. (Matthew 24:7-8)

11 And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven. (Luke 21:11)

(Perhaps it should be mentioned that contrary to the views of some Protestant prophecy preachers, the fourth horseman of the apocalypse is NOT Islam, but has to do with death and pestilence: see Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse).

Mosquitoes are pests, as far as humans are concerned, and can spread many diseases.

Bible prophecy shows that the situation with pestilence is expected to worsen:

7 When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come and see.” 8 So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth. (Revelation 6:7-8)

Mosquitoes, and the diseases associated with them, are consistent with the “beasts of the earth” that Revelation 6 is discussing.

Some genetically modified mosquitoes can be harder to kill than natural ones and pose dangerous, and seemingly prophesied, risks.

Some items of possibly related interest may include:

Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse What is the pale horse of death and pestilences? What will it bring and when? Here is a link to a related sermon:
Fourth Horseman, COVID, and the Rise of the Beast of Revelation
. Here is a version of that sermon in Spanish: El Cuarto Caballo, El COVID y El Surgimiento de la Bestia del Apocalipsis. Some shorter related videos may include Amphibian Apocalypse: Threat to Humans? and Zombie Deer Disease is Here! Are the 10 Plagues on Egypt Coming? Here is a version of the article in Spanish: El cuarto jinete de Apocalipsis, el caballo pálido de muerte y pestilencia.

Does the CCOG have the confirmed signs of Acts 2:17-18? Does any church have the confirmed dream and prophetic signs of Acts 2:17-18? Should one? Here is a link in the Spanish language: ¿Tiene la CCOG confirmadas las señales de Hechos 2: 17-18?

Church of God Leaders on Prophets Have there been prophets throughout the church age? Are any supposed to be around in the last days? What have COG leaders stated or written about prophets? Here is a link to a related sermon: Church of God Leaders on Prophets.

GMOs and Bible Prophecy What are GMOs? Since they were not in the food supply until 1994, how could they possibly relate to Bible prophecy? Do GMOs put the USA and others at risk? Here are some related videos: GMO Risks and the Bible and GMOs, Lab meat, Hydrogenation: Safe or Dangerous?

Chimeras: Has Science Crossed the Line? What are chimeras?  Has science crossed the line? Does the Bible give any clues? A video of related interest is Half human, half pig: What’s the difference?  and Human-Monkey Embryos and Death.

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse What do each of the four horseman of the Apocalypse represent? Have they began their ride? Did Jesus discuss the any of this? Might their rides coincide with the “beginning of sorrows? Do they start their ride prior to the Great Tribulation? Did Nostradamus or any other ‘private prophets’ write predictions that may mislead people so that they may not understand the truth of one or more of the four horseman? There is also a related YouTube video titled Sorrows and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Here is a link to a shorter video: These Signs of the 4 Horsemen Have Begun.

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