2024-01-22
27 分钟World of secrets season two investigates allegations surrounding one of the most powerful religious figures of the 21st century.
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Hello, I'm Ella al Shamahi and this is the conversation, the program that amplifies women's voices, which is really just a fancy way of saying we put two extraordinary women who share an expertise in a room together and see what happens.
Now, what do you think is the world's deadliest animal?
Some might say lions, some sharks.
Perhaps it's venomous spiders.
Now let me give you a hint, because this is what it sounds like.
Mosquitoes spread deadly diseases that kill over 700,000 people every year, the worst of which is of course, malaria.
Now malaria has been around for millions of years.
It halted the armies of the powerful Genghis Khan.
It's infected so many people from the egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun all the way through to Us presidents Theodore Roosevelt and JFK.
Every year it claims the lives of thousands of people around the world with pregnant women and children in Africa being the most affected.
So why havent we found a way to get rid of it?
Well, let me introduce you to two women who are on the front line of the fight against this terrible disease.
Doctor Ife Anyebo is from Nigeria, one of the countrys worst hit by malaria.
And shes an associate professor at the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases.
And Doctor Mehrin Dato, she's part of the team that developed a vaccine approved by the World Health Organization and is a clinical lecturer in infectious diseases at the University of Oxford.
Hello and thanks for coming in.
So first things first, what are your earliest memories of this disease of malaria?
Ify so of course I was born in Lagos, Nigeria and my earliest memories were of course getting infected by malaria all the time.