Scientific quests: Better bananas, nicer mosquitoes

Bill Gates challenged scientists to come up with new ideas for global health. Imaginations ran wild.
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[ianmorris]

Mosquitoes that cure

How about a mosquitoe that sits inside your PC and zaps bugs kils
viruses and stops crashes

[iamnumberfour]

Your sarcasm proves ur ignorance to the world

The science being done here is revolutionary, and deserves to be credited with respect- by not reducing it to pathetic remarks about PC viruses! If you had an ounce of brain cell to realize that Bill Gates, the world's most influential business man & philanthropist is leading a call to reduce deaths in impoverished nations by funding scientific projects that imagine wild & amazing things- you would have been a little less ignorant of the scale of such a mission! It's a hugely worthy cause, and naturally the smartest people delivered their proposals- while you sat there worrying about pc viruses because you were left out for being shallow & really dumb- 2000 deaths a day is sad enough, but i guess since u haven't heard of an anti-virus for ur PC and ur nimble brain... you're a much sadder case.