Why I Gave Bill Gates A Dead Fly

foreign guys I'm about to give Bill Gates himself a dead fly as a gift because we are celebrating something big what are we celebrating Bill we're on the way to get rid of a horrible disease called river blindness and these black flies are what that comes from but first let me tell you about flies in rich countries we don't care about flies or mosquitoes they're just annoying insects but in poor countries these annoying insects can end your life especially near water flies carry warms that can be deadly if they bite you you can get worms that go to your eyes and turn you blind the disease is called the river blindness uh it's black flies bite you a parasite gets into your blood and it goes all over makes you itch and eventually uh it gets into your eyes and permanently makes you blind imagine living your entire life in darkness the rich world doesn't know about this but the poor World suffers from this every single second in 2021 one billion people suffer from 10 neglected tropical diseases what is a neglected disease well it's a strange term it tends to be a lot of parasites and worms that exist mostly in tropical areas and because they don't exist in the rich countries they you know the drug companies the donors you know they just don't know it's there and yet it's kind of horrific stuff but guess what they are neglected no more people like Bill Gates the UAE and the World Bank have come together to do something crazy eliminate a disease that we forgot about so everybody went to work Gates Foundation ngos governments Pharmaceuticals and local people they tracked all the black flies in Niger and stop them from breeding no more flies no more bites no more disease then Pharma companies donated medicine pills to treat infected humans and then they educated everybody about tropical diseases and they did this every day for decades today for the first time in 40 years in the country of Niger we have officially won has indeed eliminated the transmission of Funko setiasis we work yes we won no more river blindness disease it's the first African country to eliminate it it's the first country but we think we can do it for the whole continent but this video is actually not about diseases it's about getting people out of poverty when you're unhealthy you cannot work you cannot make money and you stay in the cycle of poverty and when you're healthy you can work you can learn you can earn you can lift yourself out of poverty if you invest in health and education and you have a kind of stable environment then a country using its own Human Resources will lift itself up we can break those Cycles uh you know we're making a lot of progress this is a a positive story today we celebrate the end of river blindness in Niger tomorrow we celebrate it all over Africa let's give every human in the world a chance to live thanks Bill hey thank you I'm excited the more people who could go to Africa and see this on the ground and we're all humans all lives have equal value uh you know we owe it to make sure these diseases are completely eliminated

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Length: 4min 23sec (263 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 18 2021