00:00When I had dengue,
00:29I feel everything I'm I'm dizziness vomit and headache all around that and then I feel weak.
00:59About my kids if how can I protect them every day to prevent dengue for for them.
01:11I don't want to see mosquito mosquito yeah.
01:17I'll do it carefully.
01:36So mosquitoes have been around for millions and millions of years and certain species
01:40like Aedes aegypti which can transmit dengue are very well suited to adapting to live around
01:46where people are.
01:47So they can lay their eggs and the larvae can develop in a bottle cap or a very small amount
01:52of water in objects found in and around your homes.
01:56We do consider the mosquito to be the most deadly animal on the planet.
02:00More deadly than humans on human violence.
02:04Much more dangerous than hippos, crocodiles, other animals you can think of.
02:23Female mosquitoes need blood from people or other animals to develop and grow their eggs
02:29so they can reproduce and create the next generation of mosquitoes to bother us and transmit diseases.
02:34But because they do take blood from us, certain species can pick up viruses or parasites or
02:39other pathogens and they can develop inside the bodies of the mosquitoes and then when the
02:44mosquito bites another person, they can transmit that pathogen to someone else and that's why
02:48we have diseases like dengue and malaria circulating among human populations but spread by mosquitoes.
02:54So there's an attractant in the trap.
03:20The mosquito, the female mosquito will fly into the trap.
03:23There's a fan that blows the mosquito in.
03:26One of the components here is a sticky pad so the mosquito will land on the sticky pad.
03:29The light and camera will flash, take an image of that mosquito.
03:33We have algorithms that process that image and direct an artificial intelligence algorithm
03:37to identify the anatomical components as well as the species of the mosquito and that
03:43information is then shared with the user and so we can get a sense of what mosquitoes
03:47are in a specific area remotely and effectively and very quickly.
03:54Identifying where the disease-carrying mosquitoes are is very important because then the public
03:55health officials can go there and launch control efforts to prevent the disease-carrying mosquitoes.
03:56And then we can look at the features of these mosquitoes, compare them with known mosquitoes.
04:02So we can do that.
04:03So I would show them that and then also the Steven Tsai from last year.
04:06Identifying where the disease-carrying mosquitoes are is very important because then the public
04:20health officials can go there and launch control efforts to prevent further outbreaks.
04:26And you know, given the advancements in AI, we decided that we can come up with a smart
04:29AI-enabled mosquito trap that can trap mosquitoes, use AI to automatically identify the disease-spreading
04:35ones, whether it's Zika, malaria, dengue, etc.
04:59So there are obviously a lot of high-tech solutions on the horizon that can help us combat mosquitoes
05:10and mosquito-borne diseases.
05:12But one thing we know from a century or more of efforts to try and combat these diseases is
05:17that it's going to take more than one solution.
05:19So we know that tried-and-true things like using a personal repellent, one that contains
05:25DEET or picaridin or other active ingredients that are shown to be effective, we know that
05:29if you protect yourself appropriately with these products at the times when mosquitoes are
05:35going to bite you, and if you're particularly looking at mosquitoes that may transmit diseases,
05:40you know that you can have a big impact on protecting yourself or your family from these mosquitoes
05:44that could transmit disease.
05:59But I don't Ziels...
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