Malaria is a disease as old as humankind, yet we may be closer than ever to eliminating it, says medical entomologist Abdoulaye Diabaté. He explains the potential of “gene drive” technology — which aims to disrupt mosquito reproduction as a means of halting malaria transmission in Africa — and shows how his team is partnering with local communities to solve this public health challenge.
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@TrueCrimeQueen
August 21, 2024 at 7:05 am
Thanks for covering.
@MalorieParrentnt
August 21, 2024 at 7:09 am
I thought I had seen everything, but this video proved me wrong🔥
@digitalapriko
August 21, 2024 at 7:32 am
Great speech 👏🏾… I hope to see this technology applied to real-life use cases. So many deaths have been caused already.
@acmiguens
August 21, 2024 at 7:32 am
I hope they succeed. It’s a terrible disease indeed.
It’s not so big a problem in South America when compared to Africa, but we still lose a lot of people to it every year.
@Ninja9JKD
August 21, 2024 at 8:25 am
Genetically modifying mosquitoes, what could go wrong?
@patricianoll1229
August 21, 2024 at 8:43 am
Ask billy he has all the unswers
@bash-dl6rl
August 21, 2024 at 8:44 am
Wow 6
@bash-dl6rl
August 21, 2024 at 8:49 am
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@RuNzWiThDooBiEs
August 21, 2024 at 8:56 am
What will the pill pushers do?
@bash-dl6rl
August 21, 2024 at 8:57 am
I would love to apart of one of these
@Praisethesunson
August 21, 2024 at 9:42 am
Madagascar had the most successful malaria prevention program on the planet in 1970. They took malaria from the 7th primary cause of death in the county to less than 50 cases per year.
Through simple and consistent yearly investment in mosquito eradication.
A program they were forced to gut in the 1990’s to make sure JP Morgan Chase could get their interest payments paid first. Which is far more important to the free market than the lives of people on Madagascar.
@newbeginningsworshiphouse3378
August 21, 2024 at 2:30 pm
Could you point me to more data on this please
@Praisethesunson
August 21, 2024 at 2:58 pm
@@newbeginningsworshiphouse3378 okay I have tried 6 times to answer you but the posts keep getting instant deleted. 7th time’s the charm. Google Chicago tribune malaria deaths on the rise in Africa. That will get you started.
@Praisethesunson
August 21, 2024 at 3:10 pm
@@newbeginningsworshiphouse3378 I’ve tried. Answers can’t get past the auto Censorship
@Praisethesunson
August 21, 2024 at 9:13 pm
@@newbeginningsworshiphouse3378 My answers keep getting deleted so no
@christianwilliams1136
August 21, 2024 at 10:07 am
Malaria is not found in more developed countries because of sanitation. If more people had better ways to treating their waste, like having toilets or knew how to do safe composting of their fecal and urine waste, you could get rid of most of the malaria cases. The people are brewing malaria, and the mosquitoes are just the ones spreading it around. Just take care of the source, and you wont need to play god with a genetic roulette which might break more eco systems in the long run.
@wlodarskam
August 21, 2024 at 10:14 am
What is the impact on the species which are dependent on mosquitoes? Birds, amphibians, fish? How can you be sure that getting rid of one species will not start a collapse in the food chain which will eventually hit you back. There no insight on the environmental impact in this talk. Has anyone even thought about it? We used to think that spraying DDT everywhere is a great way of resolving problems. We should be wiser than that by now 🤔
@tabithachukwureh7019
August 21, 2024 at 11:17 am
I don’t think any specie feed on ONLY mosquitoes. Those birds etc can eat other insects
@fr4nz373
August 21, 2024 at 3:05 pm
Also there are many types of mosquitoes and as far as I understand only the ones that cause disease in humans would be affected by the gene drive
@jonathans.9488
August 22, 2024 at 12:15 am
This has actually been looked at and most ecosystems can take the hit.
@user-zs6hd1mc8r
August 21, 2024 at 11:35 am
I don’t clearly understand. But we try to keep insects. It will excessively essential in the future.
@JakMang
August 21, 2024 at 11:59 am
How things have changed. Malaria was wiped out in the US with DDT. No one cared about the people or the environment
@EnglishShortStory-zd3tw
August 21, 2024 at 12:18 pm
Great topics! I learn English from here🙏🙏
@Random9_
August 21, 2024 at 12:21 pm
I’m watching this video while down with Dengue lol
@CuriosityIgnited
August 21, 2024 at 8:48 pm
Learning about how close we are to eliminating malaria gives me hope that science can truly change lives.
@user-yj4hk4oq9m
August 22, 2024 at 2:25 am
🌍 Malaria is ancient yet still kills millions. 🌴 New gene drive tech may eliminate it in Africa soon. 🔬 Step-by-step approach to testing and community engagement is key. 🧬 Building African scientific capacity is crucial. 💭 A world free of malaria is the vision.
@saverioportera7096
August 22, 2024 at 6:41 am
What the speaker said at the end of his speech it’s true; it is correct that the place where we born affects our future and our destiny. He’s right ethically: why an African child should have less possibilities than a European or American child? What’s his/her fault?(because he/she is born in Africa?) About the annihilation of that type of mosquitoes, I presume scientists have to decide, they have all the necessary knowledges for that. However, I don’t know if in Europe or in America politicians considered the environmental aspect (killing mosquitoes would have affected the nature)when it was defeated the Malaria.
@ousmanedrabo2645
August 22, 2024 at 12:30 pm
Proud of you Abdoulate Diabaté!
@user-ry5by5if7i
August 23, 2024 at 12:20 am
Mosquito…. to..
@user-yj4hk4oq9m
August 23, 2024 at 10:46 am
The video is a TED Talk by Abdoulaye Diabaté, a medical entomologist from Burkina Faso. He discusses the potential to eliminate malaria in Africa using gene drive technology.
🦟 Malaria is an ancient disease that still kills millions in Africa and Asia.
💉 Current interventions like vaccines and bed nets are threatened by resistance.
💡 Diabaté’s team is developing a “gene drive” technology that could disrupt mosquito reproduction and halt malaria transmission.
⚠️ This technology is promising but also carries risks, so they are taking an incremental approach to testing and community engagement.
🌍 Capacity building in Africa is also crucial to enable Africans to deploy and manage the technology themselves.
🙏 Diabaté expresses hope that a malaria-free world is possible with these efforts..
Diabaté concludes by expressing hope that a malaria-free world is possible with these efforts
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August 23, 2024 at 2:46 pm
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@LQY-2006
August 25, 2024 at 3:12 am
we should thanks Tuyouyou and Artemisinin that she invented