Bill Gates Unleashes Swarm of Mosquitoes on Crowd

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Bill Gates Unleashes Swarm of Mosquitoes on Crowd

Thursday, February 05, 2009


TED / James Duncan Davidson

Feb. 4: Bill Gates opens a jar of mosquitoes at TED2009.

Microsoft founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates released a glass full of mosquitoes at an elite technology conference to make a point about the deadly disease malaria.
"Malaria is spread by mosquitoes," Gates said while opening a jar onstage at the Technology, Entertainment, Design Conference — a gathering known to attract technology kings, politicians, and Hollywood stars.
"I brought some. Here I'll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected."
First reported on social networking site Twitter, Facebook's Senior Platform Manager Dave Morin blogged, "Bill Gates just released mosquitos into the audience at TED."
Gates then waited a minute or so before assuring the audience the freed insects were malaria-free.
The unusual presentation on malaria prevention was confirmed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's media office. A spokesman said the insects released were not carrying malaria.
Gates retired as head of Microsoft last year to focus more on his foundation. One of its key projects is ending malaria and it has spent millions on fighting the disease.
The philanthropist has been pushing to reduce malaria deaths through the nonprofit. In September, Gates announced that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would provide $168.7 million to the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative to help develop a vaccine for the deadly disease

[Leonidas]

Helping others is the Christian thing to do. However, this does not give "nerdie" to behave in this manner. Not everyone shares the same concern.

[Daddy Needs Mils]

Can you imagine how many wet seats there were before he assured them they weren't infected?

I knew this guy was nuts back in 1993 when I met him.

Eccentric should have his picture beside it in the dictionary. Nice guy though. So nice, that when he made some huge donations to some Clinton foundations, congress went after him to force his company to basically pay up extortion fees, or get regulated and attacked by some new anti-trust laws.

Rather than fight, he paid. Nice guy though.

[RoyalBeluga]

Can you imagine how many wet seats there were before he assured them they weren't infected?

I knew this guy was nuts back in 1993 when I met him.

Eccentric should have his picture beside it in the dictionary. Nice guy though. So nice, that when he made some huge donations to some Clinton foundations, congress went after him to force his company to basically pay up extortion fees, or get regulated and attacked by some new anti-trust laws.

Rather than fight, he paid. Nice guy though.

LOL I hope no-one was allergic to Mosquito Bites

[Wolverine]

DDT


= malaria free

[Panther]

DDT


= malaria free

Yup, millions dead in third world countries because a bunch of knee jerks didn't think thru the consequences of banning DDT ... or R12 freon. But, hey their intentions were good

[Deer Hunter]

Far more people died because of their IMAGINATION about DDT than they ever began to save from what I have read. Malaria is far, far worse than DDT.

[NewIraqiDinar]

Hey Mr.Gates the CURE already exists. And it isn't found in another vaccine! Innoculation is NOT the answer.

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