A secret weapon against Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases | Nina Fedoroff

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🗓️ 25 May 2017

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Where did Zika come from, and what can we do about it? Molecular biologist Nina Fedoroff takes us around the world to understand Zika's origins and how it spread, proposing a controversial way to stop the virus -- and other deadly diseases -- by preventing infected mosquitoes from multiplying.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features molecular biologist Nina Federoff, recorded live at TEDx Mid-Atlantic, 2016.
0:17.8	Zika fever.
0:20.9	Our newest dread disease.
0:24.9	What is it?
0:26.8	Where did it come from?
0:28.0	What do we do about it?
0:30.2	Well, for most adults, it's a relatively mild disease,
0:33.4	a little fever, a little headache, joint pain, maybe a rash.
0:38.2	In fact, most people who get it don't even know they've had it.
0:42.0	But the more we find out about the Zika virus, the more terrifying it becomes.
0:47.4	For example, doctors have noticed an uptick of something called Gillian-Barray syndrome
0:52.8	in recent outbreaks. In Gillian-Barray syndrome in recent outbreaks.
0:54.7	In Gillian-Barray, your immune system attacks your nerve cells
0:57.7	that can partially or even totally paralyze you.
1:01.4	Fortunately, that's quite rare, and most people recover.
1:05.3	But if you're pregnant when you're infected,
1:09.8	you're at risk of something terrible.
1:14.0	Indeed, a child with a deformed head.
1:17.7	Here's a normal baby.
1:20.3	Here's an infant with what's called microcephaly,
1:23.7	a brain and a head that's too small,
1:27.3	and there's no known cure.
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