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2023-07-03 20:16:08 UTC - HELPFUL
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In 2021 there was an estimated 247 million cases of malaria worldwide. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malaria#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20latest%20World,to%20625%20000%20in%202020 The mosquitoes are incapable of spreading disease: Only the females bite, and these die before adulthood. Additionally, they were released in the Florida Keys, 160 miles away from the detected cases. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/epa-oks-plan-release-24-million-genetically-modified-mosquitoes-rcna19738 https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2023/07/01/malaria-cases-in-us-trigger-unfounded-claims-about-bill-gates-mosquito-project/amp/
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