{"id":94461,"date":"2026-05-20T10:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/?p=94461"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:21:20","slug":"fabrica-mosquitos-bill-gates-islandia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/es\/fabrica-mosquitos-bill-gates-islandia\/","title":{"rendered":"La \u00abf\u00e1brica de mosquitos\u00bb financiada por Bill Gates no est\u00e1 vinculada a la llegada de estos insectos a Islandia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Untitled-design-6.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Bill Gates mosquitos islandia\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Untitled-design-6.png 750w, 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767px){.kadence-column94461_a0a2fe-c6 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column94461_a0a2fe-c6\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u00bfQu\u00e9 se ha dicho?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Que los mosquitos han llegado a Islandia, el \u00faltimo lugar de la tierra donde no hab\u00eda, a causa de la f\u00e1brica de mosquitos de Bill Gates. Que forma parte de un plan para enfermar a la poblaci\u00f3n y comercializar vacunas.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.kadence-column94461_a56b4d-be > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column94461_a56b4d-be > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column94461_a56b4d-be > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column94461_a56b4d-be > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column94461_a56b4d-be > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column94461_a56b4d-be > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column94461_a56b4d-be{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column94461_a56b4d-be > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column94461_a56b4d-be > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column94461_a56b4d-be\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u00bfQu\u00e9 sabemos?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Que en octubre de 2025 se identificaron por primera vez mosquitos en Islandia, a causa del calentamiento global y el aumento del transporte, y la Ant\u00e1rtida es el \u00fanico continente del mundo donde nunca se han encontrado. Que estos insectos no son de la misma especie que los que cr\u00edan desde la organizaci\u00f3n World Mosquito Program para reducir infecciones como el dengue. Que la fundaci\u00f3n Bill &amp; Melinda Gates don\u00f3 subvenciones al programa, pero ya no financia ning\u00fan proyecto de esta organizaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Circulan en las redes sociales diversas publicaciones que relacionan la reciente llegada de <strong>mosquitos <\/strong>a <strong>Islandia <\/strong>(seg\u00fan los mensajes, el \u00faltimo lugar del mundo donde no hab\u00eda) con una <strong>f\u00e1brica de estos insectos<\/strong> en Medell\u00edn (Colombia). Algunos usuarios se\u00f1alan que la f\u00e1brica es propiedad de Bill Gates y que forma parte de un plan para enfermar a las personas y comercializar vacunas. Es <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/es\/nosotros\/metodologia-como-funciona-verificat\/#:~:text=de%20la%20realidad.-,Enga%C3%B1oso,-Contiene%20alguna%20informaci%C3%B3n\">ENGA\u00d1OSO<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>La <strong>f\u00e1brica de mosquitos<\/strong> en Colombia forma parte de un proyecto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldmosquitoprogram.org\/es\/noticias-historias\/historias\/la-fundacion-gates-y-el-world-mosquito-program-socios-en-el-cambio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">del World Mosquito Program<\/a> (WMP) de la universidad australiana de Monash para combatir el dengue y otras enfermedades transmitidas por estos insectos. El proyecto cr\u00eda mosquitos que contienen una bacteria que frena estos virus, y los libera en \u00e1reas afectadas por las enfermedades. La f<strong>undaci\u00f3n Bill &amp; Melinda Gates<\/strong> les proporcion\u00f3 financiaci\u00f3n durante varios a\u00f1os, pero en ning\u00fan caso es su propietaria y hoy en d\u00eda ya no financia ninguno de los proyectos, seg\u00fan aseguran a Verificat desde el WMP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Este proyecto tampoco tiene ninguna relaci\u00f3n con los primeros mosquitos identificados en entornos naturales en Islandia en octubre de 2025, ya que son de otra especie. Seg\u00fan confirm\u00f3 el <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natt.is\/is\/frettir\/2025\/10\/moskitofluga-greind-islandi-i-fyrsta-sinn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instituto Island\u00e9s de Historia Natural<\/a>, eran ejemplares de <em>Culiseta annulata<\/em>, mientras que los del proyecto WMP son de la especie <em>Aedes aegypti<\/em>. Desde el instituto island\u00e9s aseguran a Verificat que esta \u00faltima especie no se ha encontrado en Islandia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote yellow is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00abLos mosquitos han llegado a Islandia, el \u00faltimo lugar de la Tierra donde no hab\u00eda.\u00bb \u00abSolo hay una persona con una f\u00e1brica de mosquitos: Bill Gates\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hasta el a\u00f1o pasado, no se hab\u00edan identificado mosquitos en entornos naturales en Islandia. No est\u00e1 claro c\u00f3mo llegaron al pa\u00eds, ni si se han establecido de manera permanente, pero el n\u00famero creciente de nuevas especies de insectos en el pa\u00eds se asocia con el calentamiento del clima y el aumento del transporte, se\u00f1alan desde el instituto. El \u00fanico continente de estos insectos sigue siendo la Ant\u00e1rtida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong>\u00bfQu\u00e9 hace una \u00abf\u00e1brica de mosquitos\u00bb?<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El <strong>mosquito <\/strong><em><strong>Aedes aegypti<\/strong><\/em> es el vector principal de la transmisi\u00f3n de enfermedades como <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paho.org\/en\/topics\/dengue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">el dengue<\/a>, una enfermedad que afecta entre 100 y 400 millones de personas al a\u00f1o, seg\u00fan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/es\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/dengue-and-severe-dengue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">datos de la OMS<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Con el fin de reducir el impacto de estas infecciones y otras enfermedades como el zika, el <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC4493616\/#:~:text=The%20mosquitoes%20Aedes,al.%2C%202014).\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">chikungunya y la fiebre amarilla<\/a>, los proyectos del <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldmosquitoprogram.org\/es\/quienes-somos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">World Mosquito Program<\/a> cr\u00edan esta especie de mosquitos con la bacteria <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mosquitoes\/es\/mosquito-control\/mosquitoes-with-wolbachia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Wolbachia<\/a>, que hace que no puedan transmitir infecciones, y los liberan en la naturaleza. \u00abLa Wolbachia es una bacteria natural que se encuentra en la mayor\u00eda de especies de insectos en todo el mundo. Nuestro m\u00e9todo es natural y no modificado gen\u00e9ticamente\u00bb, se\u00f1alan desde el departamento de prensa de la organizaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tal como explican diversas publicaciones cient\u00edficas, esta bacteria reduce la <a href=\"https:\/\/escholarship.org\/uc\/item\/2j1270w5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">replicaci\u00f3n y transmisi\u00f3n del virus<\/a> y tambi\u00e9n puede acortar la vida \u00fatil de los mosquitos, disminuyendo sus poblaciones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En Colombia, los despliegues de Wolbachia en las ciudades de Bello, Medell\u00edn e Itag\u00fc\u00ed entre 2017 y 2024 dieron lugar a reducciones notables en la incidencia del dengue y una protecci\u00f3n sostenida, seg\u00fan <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosntds\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pntd.0011713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">estudios de la organizaci\u00f3n<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El WMP ha llevado a cabo intervenciones similares en 15 pa\u00edses del mundo donde estas enfermedades son end\u00e9micas y recientemente han abierto la <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldmosquitoprogram.org\/news-stories\/brazil-opens-worlds-largest-mosquito-biofactory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">biof\u00e1brica m\u00e1s grande del mundo<\/a> que cr\u00eda mosquitos <em>Aedes aegypti<\/em> con Wolbachia en Brasil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Una <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cochranelibrary.com\/cdsr\/doi\/10.1002\/14651858.CD015636.pub2\/full\/es\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">revisi\u00f3n de diversos estudios del repositorio Cochrane<\/a> demuestra el posible impacto significativo de los mosquitos <em>Aedes aegypti<\/em> portadores de Wolbachia en la prevenci\u00f3n de la infecci\u00f3n por dengue en un contexto end\u00e9mico, pero se\u00f1alan que se \u00abrequieren ensayos adicionales en una diversidad mayor de contextos para confirmar si estos resultados se aplican a otros lugares y contextos nacionales\u00bb, y es necesaria m\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n sobre el coste de la medida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong>Bill Gates, los proyectos financiados y la desinformaci\u00f3n<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La fundaci\u00f3n del empresario <strong>Bill Gates<\/strong> fue uno de los muchos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldmosquitoprogram.org\/en\/work\/collaboration\/partners-supporters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">financiadores<\/a> de los proyectos del WMP durante varios a\u00f1os, pero \u00abesta relaci\u00f3n de financiaci\u00f3n ya ha concluido\u00bb y \u00abla Fundaci\u00f3n Gates ya no financia proyectos de WMP\u00bb, se\u00f1alan desde el departamento de prensa de la organizaci\u00f3n WMP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00abLa Fundaci\u00f3n Gates no tuvo ning\u00fan papel en la direcci\u00f3n cient\u00edfica, las decisiones operativas o la gobernanza del WMP. [&#8230;] Las decisiones sobre d\u00f3nde trabajamos, c\u00f3mo trabajamos y con qui\u00e9n nos asociamos las toma \u00edntegramente el WMP y la Universidad de Monash\u00bb, remarcan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lVkBxxzr0Cc&amp;pp=ygUWbW9zcXVpdG8gZmFjdG9yeSBnYXRlcw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">v\u00eddeo viral sobre c\u00f3mo funciona la f\u00e1brica de mosquitos de Medell\u00edn<\/a> se comparti\u00f3 a trav\u00e9s del canal de YouTube de la Gates Foundation hace tres a\u00f1os, y el hallazgo de los primeros mosquitos en Islandia es del a\u00f1o pasado, pero los mensajes virales que falsamente vinculan ambas cosas han resurgido estas \u00faltimas semanas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La desinformaci\u00f3n relacionada con el programa del World Mosquito Program y Bill Gates tampoco es nueva, y otros miembros de la red internacional de verificadores (IFCN) como <a href=\"https:\/\/verifica.efe.com\/bill-gates-mosquitos-modificados-dengue-reducir-poblacion-mundial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>EFE Verifica<\/em><\/a> y <em><a href=\"https:\/\/factual.afp.com\/doc.afp.com.33QB44A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AFP Factual<\/a> <\/em>lo han desmentido con anterioridad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Muy a menudo estas narrativas se enmarcan en la conspiraci\u00f3n del <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elperiodico.com\/es\/sociedad\/20231007\/agenda-2030-que-es-92980837\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Nuevo Orden Mundial<\/a>, seg\u00fan la cual los compromisos adoptados por la Organizaci\u00f3n de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) a trav\u00e9s de la <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/es\/2015\/09\/la-asamblea-general-adopta-la-agenda-2030-para-el-desarrollo-sostenible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Agenda 2030<\/a> son en realidad un plan oculto para implantar una dictadura global. La <a href=\"https:\/\/commission.europa.eu\/strategy-and-policy\/coronavirus-response\/fighting-disinformation\/identifying-conspiracy-theories_es#:~:text=Sugieren%20falsamente%20que%20nada%20es%20accidental%20y%20que%20las%20coincidencias%20no%20existen%3B%20nada%20es%20lo%20que%20parece%20y%20todo%20est%C3%A1%20relacionado.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">naturaleza de este tipo de mensajes<\/a> es rechazar la evidencia y el consenso cient\u00edfico, y emplear cualquier hecho que d\u00e9 (aparentemente) apoyo a su mensaje como demostraci\u00f3n de que la conspiraci\u00f3n es real. Bill Gates y otros empresarios se presentan a menudo como responsables de este nuevo orden, como la teor\u00eda que desmentimos desde Verificat sobre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/es\/garrapatas-carne-roja-alergia-bill-gates\/\">las garrapatas que te hacen al\u00e9rgico a la carne roja forman parte de un plan para hacer a la gente vegetariana<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mensajes virales vinculan un programa que cr\u00eda mosquitos contra el dengue en Colombia con la identificaci\u00f3n de los primeros ejemplares en Islandia, pero no son la misma especie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":94460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,114,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ciencia-verificaciones","category-salut-verificaciones","category-verificaciones","with-featured-image"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":265,"label":"Ciencia"},{"value":114,"label":"Salud"},{"value":111,"label":"Verificaciones"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Untitled-design-6.png",750,446,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Laura","author_link":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/es\/author\/laura\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":265,"name":"Ciencia","slug":"ciencia-verificaciones","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":265,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":111,"count":307,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":265,"category_count":307,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Ciencia","category_nicename":"ciencia-verificaciones","category_parent":111},{"term_id":114,"name":"Salud","slug":"salut-verificaciones","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":114,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":111,"count":388,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":114,"category_count":388,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Salud","category_nicename":"salut-verificaciones","category_parent":111},{"term_id":111,"name":"Verificaciones","slug":"verificaciones","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":111,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1464,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":111,"category_count":1464,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Verificaciones","category_nicename":"verificaciones","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94461"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96167,"href":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94461\/revisions\/96167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verificat.cat\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}