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A growing number of experts are raising the alarm over billionaire Bill Gates’s extensive involvement in genetically modified mosquito projects after it emerged that the Microsoft co-founder has released hundreds of millions of bacteria-infested mosquitoes into the wild in Colombia.
Burkina Faso Pulls Plug on Gates-Backed Mosquito Project
Target Malaria launched operations in Burkina Faso in 2012 as part of a broader international effort to deploy gene-editing technologies against malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
In August 2025, Burkina Faso’s government ordered an immediate halt to all project activities and directed that remaining mosquito samples be destroyed.