> But the researchers stressed that many years of additional research are needed to further test the safety and effectiveness of the approach before anyone attempts to release these mosquitoes or any other organisms created this way into the wild.

> The scientists acknowledge the technology raises serious concerns. So it will require broad political debate, rigorous regulation and the consent of people living in any areas where they might be released, they say.

It also raises an interesting moral issue which might be a good plot for a novel:

The plan to introduce the mosquitoes runs into roadblocks, mainly from people who see all GMOs as inherently evil and utterly terrible, as a matter of basic dogma. A few of the scientists on the team developing these mosquitoes realize that those roadblocks are not going to go away, regardless of how well-argued the case in favor of the mosquitoes is and how many lives are being lost in the Third World, far from any anti-GMO activists. (See also: Golden rice, which could be curing blindness were it not for implacable opposition to GMO food.) The scientists proceed to release the modified mosquitoes into the wild, saving a lot of Third Worlders and making First Worlder anti-GMO activists go nuclear.