There are an awful lot of things that you'd like to distinguish among.

CA And malaria's even further behind?

And so as these elements come together,

Malaria is carried by mosquitoes.

We know that that works.

So we thought,

Every year a million and a half people die of a completely preventable disease.

And so that's why that priority has been set.

But that alone doesn't give us the road map.

Malaria is a disease that mosquitoes carry.

Malaria.

They had a very strong preference for biting on the face.

There was a speaker there, Sonia Shah.

And bed nets have an effect on the epidemic, but you're never going to make it extinct with bed nets.

She's one of the best dog trainers in the world, and she believes that we can do a lot more.

And we were doing open heart surgery.

So what can we do about it?

They don't always get to everyone.

The HlV epidemic peaked.

So I was the oldest person in the house.

Malaria isn't actually where everyone is right now.

And this was, incidentally, published in 1949, in the leading textbook of malaria, called Boyd's Malariology.

I'm going to look across areas with different levels of malaria.

Many are dying because of all those kind of pandemics,

Now, I want to ask a question.

This is malaria spreading across Madagascar.

We'll die of malaria waiting out here.

We also have another hemozoin oriented therapy for malaria a way, in acute cases, to actually take the malaria parasite and filter it out of the blood system.

In fact, that is the leading cause of under five mortality.

So, maybe spraying DDT on crops is a really bad idea.

Esther Duflo talked a little bit about this.

I thought this was unacceptable. So I decided to do something about it.

The fourth best problem is malaria dealing with malaria.

But yeah, what's the first one on his list, starvation?

So it was absolutely gigantic.

But then they started to grow their economy.

I'm not saying instead of, I'm saying as well as,

Hands up anyone in the audience who's not sure whether malaria is a good thing or a bad thing?

Easy to treat. Look at the situation in Mauritius.

We'll put you on the cover of Wired magazine.

In a way, much more powerful than the kind of tools we're looking at, because most of what's being done today is to rely on things like anti malarial drugs.

If it was the case, we wouldn't have between 200 and 300 million cases of malaria every year, and we wouldn't have a million and a half deaths from malaria, and we wouldn't have a disease that was relatively unknown 50 years ago now suddenly turned into the largest mosquito borne virus threat that we have, and that's called dengue fever.

Believe it or not, some of us do survive.

Well, we could protect very high value targets like clinics.

We failed three other times.