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Is Bill Gates Releasing Millions of GMO Mosquitoes?!

Claim : Bill Gates Is Releasing Millions Of GMO Mosquitoes!

People are sharing a World Mosquito Program video as evidence that Bill Gates is manufacturing and releasing 30 million genetically-mosquitoes every week, from his mosquito factory in Colombia.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr : Should Bill Gates be releasing 30 million genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild? Part of the mentality of earth-as-engineering-object. What could possibly go wrong?

Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis : BILL GATES – This is Bill’s mosquito factory in Colombia. It’s the largest in the world. 30 million genetically modified mosquitoes are released every week into 11 countries. Because Bill knows better than nature, what could possibly go wrong.

Dr. Lynn Fynn-derella : How is @BillGates allowed to do this? They are likely testing mosquito-borne disease spread in order to roll out more vaccines for the diseases they create. The entire mosquito population should be eradicated- including the king mosquito-

Truth : Bill Gates Is NOT Releasing Millions Of GMO Mosquitoes!

This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS created about Bill Gates, and here are the reasons why…

Fact #1 : Mosquito Factory Video Was Released In 2022

First, let me just point out that the mosquito factory video is not new. It was posted by Bill Gates on his YouTube channel some 9 months ago, on August 16, 2022, garnering over 6.9 million views.

Fact #2 : Mosquito Factory Does Not Belong To Bill Gates

The “world’s biggest mosquito factory” in Medellin, Colombia, does not belong to Bill Gates. It is not Bill Gates’ mosquito factory. He doesn’t own one.

As the viral video clearly states, that mosquito factory belongs to World Mosquito Program.

Fact #3 : World Mosquito Program Has Many “Factories”

The World Mosquito Program actually has a number of mosquito breeding facilities worldwide. The Medellin mosquito factory is merely its biggest. To be clear – Bill Gates does not own any of them.

Fact #4 : Those Are Not Genetically-Modified Mosquitoes

The claim that those are genetically-modified mosquitoes is false. Those are regular Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that have not been genetically modified.

As the video itself explained, the mosquitoes are only being infected with the Wolbachia bacteria, which are extremely common bacteria found naturally in 50% of insect species.

The World Mosquito Program also clearly stated on its website that it does not genetically modify any mosquito:

Unlike most other techniques that aim to prevent mosquito-borne diseases, our Wolbachia method is natural and self-sustaining.

Our method does not suppress mosquito populations or involve genetic modification (GM), as the genetic material of the mosquito is not altered.

Fact #5 : Wolbachia Mosquitoes Prevent Diseases

When Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are infected by the Wolbachia bacteria, scientists discovered that the bacteria competes with viruses like dengue, Zika, chikungunya, and yellow fever!

This makes it harder for the dengue, Zika, chikungunya, and yellow fever viruses to multiply in the Wolbachia-infected mosquito, and thus, block the transmission of those viruses.

A randomised controlled trial conducted in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, found that Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes reduced the number of dengue cases in the city by a whopping 77%, and dengue hospitalisations by 86%!

Another study conducted in Medillin (where the mosquito factory is located) showed that the mosquitoes reduced dengue cases there by 89% since they were first released in 2015.

On top of that, scientists also discovered that male Wolbachia mosquitoes can reduce the population of uninfected mosquitoes by breeding with normal female mosquitoes – the eggs they produce won’t hatch!

All this can be accomplished by breeding and infecting mosquitoes with the Wolbachia bacteria, and releasing them. There is no need for any genetic modification.

Credit : National Environment Agency

Fact #6 : World Mosquito Program Is A Monash University Project

The World Mosquito Program is not a Bill Gates project. Formerly known as the Eliminate Dengue Project, it is a non-profit initiative by Monash University of Australia, with funding from the Australian government, as well as other donors.

Fact #7 : Bill + Melinda Gates Foundation Helped Fund The Project

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, together with the Wellcome Trust, awarded the World Mosquito Program with AUD$50 million (US$33.7 million) in additional funds in September 2022.

It is unknown how much the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation alone contributed to the World Mosquito Program, but both foundations have contributed a total of AUD$185 million (US$124.6 million) in funding since 2010.

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Did Chelsea Clinton Call To Force-Jab Every Child?!

Claim : Chelsea Clinton Calls To Force-Jab Every Child!

People are sharing an article that claims that the Chelsea Clinton say it’s time to force-jab every child in America with the mRNA vaccine, with or without parental consent!

Here is an excerpt from the very long article, so feel free to skip to the next section for the facts!

Chelsea Clinton: ‘It’s Time To Force-Jab Every Unvaccinated Child in America’

Chelsea Clinton has declared that unvaccinated children in America must be forced to take the mRNA jab with or without parental consent.

Chelsea – via the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) – along with the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says she hopes to force jab unvaccinated children via a new initiative called “The Big Catch-up.”

“The Big Catch-up” will last 18 months and, according to Bill Clinton’s daughter, aims to become “the largest childhood immunization effort ever.”

Childrenshealthdefense.org reports: Clinton, who serves as vice chair of CHAI, last week presented the initiative at Fortune’s Brainstorm Health Conference in Marina del Rey, California.

One day earlier, under the auspices of World Immunization Week, the WHO introduced “The Big Catch-up,” describing it as a “targeted global effort to boost vaccination among children following declines driven by the COVID-19 pandemic.”

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Truth : Chelsea Clinton Never Called To Force-Jab Any Child!

This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS created and propagated by The People’s Voice, and here are the reasons why…

Fact #1 : The People’s Voice Is A Fake News Website

The People’s Voice is the new name / brand for NewsPunch, which was forced to change its name because it has been so thoroughly discredited, its brand was worthless.

Like Real Raw News, NewPunch was a FAKE NEWS website that capitalises on making shocking but fake stories to generate page views and money.

It was founded as Your News Wire in 2014, before being rebranded as NewsPunch in November 2018. A 2017 BuzzFeed report identified NewsPunch as the second-largest source of popular fake news spread on Facebook that year.

Its articles have been regularly debunked as fake news, so you should NEVER share anything from NewsPunch / The People’s Voice. Here are some of its fake stories that I personally debunked earlier:

Fact #2 : Chelsea Clinton Did Not Call To Force-Jab Any Child

As usual, NewsPunch / The People’s Voice offered ZERO EVIDENCE to back up its claims. That’s because it’s a fake story – Chelsea Clinton never once say that it was time to force-jab every child in America with the mRNA vaccine, with or without parental consent!

NewsPunch / The People’s Voice also offered NO EVIDENCE that Chelsea Clinton said “she hopes to force jab unvaccinated children via a new initiative called “The Big Catch-up”.

In fact, anyone who spends just a minute or two to search on Google or Bing would have discovered that there is not even a single quote from any speech or video to show that Chelsea Clinton called for children to be forcibly vaccinated with the mRNA vaccines, with or without parent consent.

Fact #3 : The Big Catch-Up Is About Childhood Vaccinations

The NewsPunch / The People’s Voice is based on what Chelsea Clinton said at Fortune’s Barnstorm Health conference in Marin del Ray, California on April 26, 2023.

At the event, she was promoting The Big Catch-Up, which is a global public health initiative to vaccinate children against childhood diseases like measles, diphtheria, polio and yellow fever.

Not only was she referring to a global initiative, she was also referring to childhood diseases. She certainly did not said that children should be forcibly vaccinated. Neither did she say that they should be vaccinated with or without their parents’ consent.

The Big Catch-Up does not involve mRNA vaccines or COVID-19 vaccines. It only targets childhood vaccinations that have declined during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In other words – claims that this is about forcibly vaccinating American children with the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines is utter nonsense, and are pure lies.

Fact #4 : She Warned About Low Childhood Vaccinations In The US

The Big Catch-Up isn’t focused on the United States. Rather, it mainly targets the 20 countries where three quarters of children who missed vaccinations in 2021 lives – Afghanistan, Angola, Brazil, Cameroon, Chad, DPRK, DRC, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Somalia, Madagascar, Mexico, Mozambique, Myanmar, Tanzania, Viet Nam.

While the United States isn’t the main focus of The Big Catch-Up, Chelsea Clinton pointed out that many US c children failed to get their childhood vaccines. Less than 70% of children ages 2 and under in the US were considered fully vaccinated during 2020-2021, having received a full set of shots for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, measles, and other diseases common before the vaccine era.

No one should die of polio, measles, or pneumonia—including in this country, where we also need people to vaccinate their kids.