Burkina Faso suspends Bill Gates-backed malaria funded initiative
Burkina Faso’s military government has suspended the controversial Target Malaria project, a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation–funded initiative that released genetically modified mosquitoes in an experimental bid to eradicate malaria. Burkina Faso’s military government has suspended the Target Malaria project aimed at utilizing genetically modified mosquitoes to combat malaria. The decision includes the immediate cessation…