Hundreds of millions of Franken-mosquitos will soon be released in Florida. Deliberately.<br /><br />The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District plans to release 750 million genetically engineered mosquitos, in the hopes of reducing another kind of mosquito.<br />Aedes aegypti carries yellow fever, Zika, dengue, chikungunya, and other deadly diseases.<br />According to Gizmodo, they’re the reason for the current outbreak of dengue fever in the Upper Keys, which has infected nearly 50 people.<br />The genetically engineered mosquitos will be unable to produce female larvae that hatch and live long enough to spread disease.<br />However, there are fears the scheme could simply produce mosquitoes more resistant to insecticide.<br />Also, the impact of introducing hundreds of millions of tweaked mosquitoes into the ecosystem is unknown--and could be devastating.