How to end malaria once and for all | Abdoulaye Diabaté

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🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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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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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
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0:15.7	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:17.8	I am some sort of mosquito magnet.
0:20.8	Even if everyone else I'm with can avoid getting bitten, I somehow wind up with my legs and arms just dotted with itchy bites.
0:27.0	But leaving itchy swollen bites is the least of the harms the mosquitoes can do.
0:33.2	Mosquitoes carry malaria,
0:34.8	a prolific killer of children and pregnant women.
0:37.8	Medical entomologist Abdullah Diabati
0:40.3	is doing something about it.
0:42.1	He shares his scientific endeavor to target the entire
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