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Our friend Bill Gates, surely to atone for everything he screwed us with windows for almost two generations, uses a good part of his fortune to develop projects that can help humanity, obviously according to his criteria, but whatever it is, it's thank and among these projects is a huge mosquito farm.
Nuestro amigo Bill Gates, seguramente para expiar todo lo que nos puteó con las windows a casi dos generaciones, emplea buena parte de su fortuna en el desarrollo de proyectos que puedan ayudar a la humanidad, obviamente según su criterio, pero sea como sea es de agradecer y entre estos proyectos se encuentra una enorme granja de mosquitos.
As you all know, mosquitoes are carriers of a good number of diseases, all of them quite serious, including the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which is responsible for the transmission of diseases such as dengue, Zika, chikungunya or yellow fever, which cause numerous deaths throughout the planet.
Como todos sabéis, los mosquitos son portadores de un buen número de enfermedades todas ellas bastante graves, entre ellos el mosquito Aedes aegypti que es el culpable de la transmisión de enfermedades como el dengue, el Zika, el chikungunya o la fiebre amarilla, que causan numerosas muertes a lo largo del planeta.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation aims to revolutionize the way in which these diseases are fought in a project that consists, roughly, of introducing a bacterium into mosquitoes of the Aedes aegypti species that prevents them from transmitting the diseases mentioned in the previous paragraph, making them annoying but innocuous.
La Fundación Bill and Melinda Gates pretende revolucionar la forma en que se lucha contra estas enfermedades en un proyecto que consiste, grosso modo, en introducir una bacteria en los mosquitos de la especie Aedes aegypti que impide que puedan trasmitir las enfermedades mencionadas en el párrafo anterior, convirtiéndolos en molestos pero inocuos.
It is a bacterium called Wolbachia that, although it had already been discovered in the 20s of the last century, was not studied methodically until after the 70s. The fact is that this bacterium can be genetically modified to prevent mosquitoes from transmitting these diseases through their bites.
Se trata de una bacteria llamada Wolbachia que, aunque ya había sido descubierta en los años 20 del siglo pasado, no se estudió metódicamente hasta pasados los años 70, el caso es que esta bacteria puede ser modificada genéticamente para evitar que los mosquitos transmitan estas enfermedades a través de sus picaduras.
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And not only that, but this bacterium is also transmitted to future generations, which means that when the new mosquitoes reproduce, they continue to be incapable of transmitting these diseases in all the countries where these mosquitoes have been released and over time and with a bit of luck they end up outrunning the old mosquitoes.
Y no solo eso sino que además esta bacteria se transmite a las futuras generaciones, eso quiere decir que cuando re reproduzcan los nuevos mosquitos sigan siendo incapaces de transmitir estas enfermedades en todos los países en los que estos mosquitos han sido liberados y con el tiempo y un poco de suerte acaben superando a los antiguos mosquitos.
It is not that Bill Gates is my idol, I have already commented in the first paragraph in a veiled way what he has made me suffer in my professional career with his windows, but it must be recognized that we need this example to spread and that all super millionaires dedicate what they have plenty to help those who have not been so lucky in life.
No es que Bill Gates sea mi ídolo, ya he comentado veladamente en el primer párrafo lo que me ha hecho sufrir en mi carrera profesional con sus windows, pero hay que reconocer que necesitamos que este ejemplo cunda y que todos los super millonarios dediquen lo que les sobre a ayudar a los que no han tenido tanta suerte en la vida.
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https://crast.net/396465/bill-gates-is-releasing-millions-of-mosquitoes-in-colombia-but-there-is-a-very-good-reason-for-it/
I'm curious, how has the Windows impacted your career Sir? 🤔
I have been working in IT since the 1980's and have had to test and manage this horrible product since its first release, Gates always had us as guinea pigs and windows crashed like a sideshow shotgun.
Now that I've stopped working I've switched to Apple and I have a lot less problems.