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So what started out as an idea, is now being implemented to churn out millions of sequences that we can use to investigate the long-term evolutionary history of human health and disease, right down to the genetic code of individual pathogens.
You probably know that roughly 25 million people in Africa are infected with the virus, that AIDS is a
disease
of poverty, and that if we can bring Africa out of poverty, we would decrease AIDS as well.
So malaria is a
disease
that kills you.
It's a
disease
that kills a lot of adults in Africa, in addition to a lot of children.
If people have no incentive to avoid AIDS on their own, even if they know everything about the disease, they still may not change their behavior.
To do this, we're going to have to rely on the fact that AIDS is a very specific kind of
disease.
But openness and inter-connectedness, it comes with a cost when we think about
disease.
The epidemic was introduced to the US by actually one male steward on an airline flight, who got the
disease
in Africa and brought it back.
Because half the world's population runs the risk of contracting a killer
disease
like malaria through a simple mosquito bite.
But perhaps if we can attract these mosquitoes to traps, bait it with our smell, we may be able to stop transmission of
disease.
One of the best ways of killing mosquitoes is not to wait until they fly around like adults and bite people and transmit
disease.
That would give us an opportunity to actually eliminate malaria as a
disease.
Trachoma is a curious
disease.
Now, it's a very old
disease.
And the tragedy is that
disease
is still rampant in that area today.
So we know how to tackle the
disease.
And from that, we were able to build a map that showed us where the
disease
was.
And we can make significant progress in two countries which have the highest burden of the disease, which is Ethiopia and Nigeria.
We would be on the home straight to eliminate this
disease
from the whole world.
And in the excitement of being able to say we've got rid of trachoma for the whole country, let's not forget that, actually, this is a devastating
disease
that destroys the lives of individual people.
As an extreme example: the
disease
cholera is caused by a bacterium that thrives in the ocean.
Just as a physician will have trouble curing a
disease
of unknown cause, we will have similar trouble restoring ocean health without understanding the microbes better.
Or: How do we stop coral
disease
from spreading?
By learning more about what triggers the hunt, we should be able to find ways to help slow down or prevent this
disease.
So Beijerinck set out to discover the cause of tobacco mosaic
disease.
We often focus on one disease, one model, one problem, but my experience suggests that we should take the time to apply ideas broadly between systems and just see where it takes us.
Best hospitals where doctors say they would go for cancer treatment, births, strokes, heart disease, hip replacements, 4 a.m.
And yet, if you take, for example, subclinical osteoporosis, a bone thinning disease, the precondition, otherwise known as osteopenia, you would have to treat 270 women for three years in order to prevent one broken bone.
If you develop a disease, you're off the island.
I've had honest-to-goodness high blood pressure for a dozen years now, same age my father got it, and it's a real
disease.
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