Pandora's box: how GM mosquitos could have caused Brazil's microcephaly disaster

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2987024/pandoras_box_how_gm_mosquitos_could_have_caused_brazils_microcephaly_disaster.html
Date Written:  2016-02-01
Publisher:  The Ecologist
Year Published:  2016
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX18776

In Brazil's microcephaly epidemic, one vital question remains unanswered: how did the Zika virus suddenly learn how to disrupt the development of human embryos? The answer may lie in a sequence of 'jumping DNA' used to engineer the virus's mosquito vector - and released into the wild four years ago in the precise area of Brazil where the microcephaly crisis is most acute.