The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has funded efforts to eradicate malaria, but not in the U.S., where the disease is rare. One company the foundation has funded has a mosquito project in the U.S., but it is unrelated to malaria.
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These posts misconstrue the facts around the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s financial support to help eradicate malaria worldwide. Gates’ foundation has not funded research related to mosquitoes or malaria in the U.S.Malaria is a serious and potentially fatal disease transmitted through the bite of a female anopheline mosquito.
The last time locally acquired mosquito-borne malaria occurred was in 2003 in Florida, the CDC said. Most reported malaria cases in the U.S. occur in people who contracted it while traveling internationally. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, about 2,000 cases of travel-related malaria were reported annually in the U.S.
But the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has not funded Oxitec for any U.S.-based work, Oxitec spokesperson Joshua Van Raalte said. The foundationOxitec does have projects in the U.S. involving mosquitoes, but they are unrelated to malaria, Van Raalte said. The work involves the
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