The factory can produce 60 million mosquitos a week and plans to release 10 million of them in Piracicaba the first week that it has approval. In a town with a population of 360,000, that’s a little over 27 mosquitos per person.
该公司一周能够生产六千万只蚊虫,并计划在获得卫生机构许可的第一周,将一千万只转基因雄性蚊虫释放到皮拉西卡巴。在这个有着三十六万人口的地方,每个人基本能分到27只蚊虫还有余。
It’s truly unknown what kind of broader effect the systematic extinction of mosquitos would have on the eco-system. The little pests are generally believed to have no broader purpose than to survive and spread disease. But without long-term impact studies, it’s difficult to say whether or not the destruction of mosquito species would come without consequence.
目前尚不明确这种有计划有步骤灭绝蚊虫的行动,会给生态系统带来怎样的广泛影响。人们认为蚊虫这种小害虫除了生存和传播疾病之外,对生态环境没有其它的影响。可在没有对长期影响进行研究的情况下,科学家们很难断言摧毁蚊虫这个物种是否不会让我们遭受任何不好的后果。
That doesn’t seem to bother the researchers at Oxitec. “There are three essential factors for the transmission of these diseases: the mosquitoes, the virus and humans,” Oxitec biologist Karla Tepedino said. “What we do here is eliminate the mosquitoes, which transmit the virus.”
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