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

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.