GMO mosquito plan headed for residents’ vote in Florida Keys

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Residents in the Florida Keys will get to vote on whether genetically modified mosquitoes should be released in their neighborhood.
The mosquito control district in the island chain wants the British biotech firm Oxitec to test its modified mosquitoes in a neighborhood of 444 homes clustered on a relatively isolated peninsula north of Key West.
At a board meeting Tuesday in Marathon, the district’s board of commissioners decided to allow residents of the Key Hav