CLAIM: Recently reported cases of Eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, virus in Alabama were caused by a genetically modified mosquito project tied to Bill Gates.
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ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Genetically modified mosquitoes aren’t being released from aircraft around the US
CLAIM: Videos of black substances in the sky in California and Ohio show the release of genetically modified mosquitoes that are part of an initiative backed by Bill Gates.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Pesky conspiracy theory about GMO mosquitoes is back. Here’s why they aren’t in Ohio.
"Modified mosquitoes have officially made it to Ohio.”
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ No, a video does not show a helicopter dropping mosquitoes in Florida
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Insect swarm at Baltimore festival were likely gnats, not deadly mosquitoes aimed at crowd
"Helicopter released deadly mosquitoes” at Baltimore’s AFRAM Festival.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Deadly mosquitoes did not swarm Baltimore music festival
CLAIM: Video shows deadly mosquitoes released at a Baltimore music festival. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. While concertgoers were swarmed by flying insects at one point during an African American music festival last month, concert goers were not bitten by
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Bugs Swarming At AFRAM Were NOT ‘Deadly Mosquitoes’ Released From Helicopter
Did a helicopter release a swarm of deadly mosquitoes over the crowd at Baltimore's African American Festival (AFRAM) on June 18, 2023? No, that's not true: An urban entomologist told Lead Stories that day-active mosquitoes in that region
Health Feedback→ 2023 malaria cases in the U.S. are unrelated to the release of genetically modified mosquitoes, contrary to viral claims online
REVIEW Mosquitoes serve as vectors for a number of potentially fatal diseases like dengue, chikungunya, Yellow fever, and West Nile fever, as well as malaria and Japanese encephalitis. Altogether, they cause hundreds of thousands of deaths each year
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Bill Gates Did NOT Introduce Malaria In Texas And Florida By Releasing Genetically Modified Mosquitoes
Did Bill Gates hatch a convoluted plan to create a demand for anti-malaria drugs he funded by also funding malaria-fighting programs while developing a means to introduce malaria to the United States through genetically modified mosquitoe
Logically→ Bill Gates’ genetically modified mosquitoes are responsible for mosquito-borne viruses in Florida and are part of the next planned pandemic.
GMO mosquitoes in Florida are not funded by Bill Gates. The virus in Florida is the West Nile virus, which has been found in the U.S. since 1999.
Snopes→ Do Bubble Machines Keep Mosquitoes Away?
Hacks for keeping mosquitoes away are a common type of rumor.
Logically→ Governments are using nanotechnology to create mosquitoes and spread disease.
Genetically modified mosquitoes have been created to prevent diseases like dengue, chikungunya, and malaria; not to spread or develop them.
Snopes→ Are There No Mosquitoes in Iceland?
The island is one of the few places on earth free of the insect.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Masks Are NOT As Ineffective At Blocking Virus As Chain-Link Fencing Is At Blocking Mosquitoes
Is wearing a face mask to prevent the transmission of an airborne virus as ineffective as building a chain-link fence to keep mosquitos out of a yard? No, that's not true: This is a misleading analogy, but it was made as a joke. The gapin
Snopes→ Disney World Has Mosquitoes, Despite Claims Seen Online
For years, blogs and videos have claimed that Disney World guests would "never" see mosquitoes inside "the most magical place on earth."
Snopes→ Bill Gates Releasing Genetically Modified Mosquitoes in Florida? Here’s the Whole Story
No, it's not another microchip conspiracy.
Logically→ The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wants to make mosquitoes extinct.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation only wants to make malaria-causing mosquitoes extinct.
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Man Whose Fart Does NOT Kill Mosquitoes Has NOT Been Hired To Produce Belly Gas For Repellent
Was a man whose fart is known to kill mosquitoes hired to produce belly gas for a repellent? No, that's not true: The man was a fictional creation of a satire website, but many publishers failed to pick up on the joke and republished the claim
Snopes→ Did Insect Repellent Companies Hire a Ugandan Man Whose Flatulence Kills Mosquitoes?
Multiple news websites from around the world were taken in by a crude hoax in December 2019.
FactCheck.org→ U.S.-Acquired Malaria Cases Spark False Claims of Links to Gates-Funded Research
SciCheck Digest The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supports research into fighting malaria, including funding a company that releases genetically modified mosquitoes that are incapable of carrying the disease. But reports of locally acquired cas
Full Fact→ Bill Gates-funded company did not cause malaria cases in Florida
Claims that a company happened to start releasing mosquitoes in the same places local-acquired malaria has been identified have been shared on social media.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Genetically Modified Mosquito With Number Stamped On It
Does a video on social media show a genetically modified (GM) mosquito with a number stamped on it? No, that's not true: An insect expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said the bug shown in the video "does not appear to be a mosq
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Edited Photo Is NOT Proof Of Real ‘Team Chemtrail’ — Air Force Reserve C-130 Equipped For Mosquito Spraying
Does a photo of a man in a military flight suit appearing to wear a #TEAMCHEMTRAIL patch as he stands in front of a large silver tank provide evidence that the military is spraying "chemtrails"? No, that's not true: This image has been al
Health Feedback→ Going vegan may lead to fewer pandemics, but it won’t eliminate them completely
REVIEW On 23 March 2021, American musician Richard Melville Hall, known professionally as Moby, posted a claim on Facebook stating that going vegan would mean a world with no pandemics, because 100% of pandemics have a zoonotic origin. Zoonoses are
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: These Photos Are NOT Associated With ‘Chemtrails’
Does this collection of photos show the inner workings of airplanes that spray "chemtrails" and has this information been "declassified"? No, that's not true: These photos do not show "chemtrail spraying equipment." The photos are either
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Faulty Malaria-Coronavirus Connection
Falsely citing “studies,” President Donald Trump has suggested that there are few novel coronavirus cases in “malaria countries” because of the use of the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine. But no such studies exist, and the drug is not wide