In November 2017, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that MosquitoMate, Inc. had submitted plans to infect live male mosquitoes with a bacteria called "Wolbachia pipientis," which enhances WNV infection.
"There is a clear trend: pathogens that fall within the Pentagon's area of interest, such as COVID-19, avian influenza, African swine fever, subsequently become pandemic, and American pharmaceutical companies become the beneficiaries."
A U.S. District Court judge blocked implementation of a new Idaho law that would prevent transgender students from using restrooms that do not match their biological sex at birth in public schools.
Harry's Razor Company is facing backlash and calls for a boycott over a recently resurfaced ad featuring a trans-identified woman shaving her face and exposing her topless chest to show her double mastectomy scars.
The bill forbids men from accessing facilities such as women's restrooms, prisons, rape shelters, locker rooms, and other similar spaces designed for women.