Jo,
The fruit fly:
drosophilaAny member of about 1,000 species in the dipteran genus Drosophila, commonly known as fruit flies but also called vinegar flies. Some species, particularly D. melanogaster, are used extensively in laboratories for experiments on genetics and evolution because they are easy to raise and have a short life cycle (less than two weeks at room temperature). More data have been collected concerning the genetics of Drosophila than for any other animal. In the wild, its larvae live in rotting or damaged fruits or in fungi or fleshy flowers.
I think it's no wonder this is now happening to humans, given recombinant genetics and the fruit fly being the most commonly used organism for the research. It feeds on fungi..........if we have candida in our bodies, which most of us probably do, that works for it to stay alive, although I know absolutely nothing about any of this. Just musing. If they splice the genes from fungi and combine with genes of the fly, and we eat some of this plant or other bio-engineered food (abalone?) (80% of our food is B-E'd) then it will probably interact with the other fungi, bacteria and viruses we have in our systems. Makes sense to me. Then our immune systems are trying to fight off this frankenfungfly by pushing it out through our skin.
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