My Sister Got Malaria ....(And I Didn't) - Smarter Every Day 167 

When do we get more no dumb questions?

Random malaria fact: You can cure late-stage syphilis by infecting people with malaria, since the syphilis bacteria can't handle the high fevers. This was actually used a treatment before the discovery of antibiotics. So as weird as it sounds, malaria, one of the deadliest human diseases, has saved lives.

Man this channel is RU-vids Top 10, its like a treasure. Everytime i watch a video i learn more than i do from 1000 other youtube videos

omg that beard

1:32 It's starting to look like Destin is a drugdealer

You smuggled rockets in to an African country? thats fine :)

I think he just showed us a crime

Wait so you can just buy malaria??

Destin, how about a video focusing on "the world getting better"? Crime rates over decades, disease, infant mortality, world poverty, polio eradication, smallpox eradication, etc? I think it would be a popular video, and even more importantly help people feel a little more hopeful. It's been a rough couple years for the first world, but if you look at humanity in aggregate you get a clear picture of an improving world. You could also do a video on things that need more focus like climate change, but that's "been done". The positive side hasn't really been looked at in popular media!

the mystery eggs you saw were tadpoles :)

This is a video like Casey Neistat would do, but this is 10x less pretentious.

So are we just gonna ignore the rocket smuggling? Yes? ok.

As a mosquito control technician I can tell you mosquitoes are by far the greatest killer of mankind. Slight correction to your video destin. Males and female mosquitoes both seek flowers for their primary food source, however females only find a blood meal after having mates with a male. They need the protein to lay the eggs. Not whenever they can. Most people don’t know control districts even exist here in California. We know we are doing a good job when we don’t make the news. Love you videos keep up the great work

But did you know that in those countries with high chances to get malaria, there are also a lot of people who have a disease called sickle-cell anaemia. That is a blood disease which leads to an abnormality in hemoglobin, but those people are also imune to malaria.

I read the entire letter. Wow, I had no idea the impact Bill, Malinda and Warren are having. The chart at the end that shows how Polio has been crushed is AWESOME! Thank you Destin, for sharing this.

I really dont know why people would down vote these kinds of videos, thank you Destin for sharing info about malaria.

What an enjoyable read. Thanks to you and the Gates Foundation for making this available. I reposted it myself hoping my friends will enjoy it as much as I did.

Destin, thank you for making these awesome, uplifting videos. With so much going wrong in the world, it's so important to have people like you pointing out the good stuff!

I _casually_ got sponsored by Bill and Melinda Gates, and _casually_ went to Africa and my sister _casually_ got Malaria.

1:30 “I smuggled explosives internationally”

I thought it was Ethan from h3h3 doing his cough thing in the thumbnail

I feel blessed when people like you spread knowledge and awareness of hard issues. Thank you!

we need more good people like Destin in this world!

When I started my medical education in 1997 we were told that Malaria is by far the most problematic infectious disease worldwide with 500-700 million infections and reinfections and a 15-17 million death toll per year. Much has been achieved since then. Thanks for raising conciousness about many different areas apart from what´s in the news everyday.

Bill and Melinda Gates… that aged well lol

how often are y'all trying to release your podcast, I've already listened to all of them and you left me wanting more! keep up the awesome work. A longtime fan from Colorado.

I love the Bible verse at the end keep going with that:)

Hey Dustin, recently found your channel and loving it. I am originally from The Gambia and was surprised you went there with the Peace Corps. I've had my own bouts with malaria growing up so it can relate to what your sister went through. Keep up the good work.

gj dustin a big fan from saudi arabia

I love this. I was a volunteer in Senegal when you posted this video!

Today I figured out and learnt how to read the time on your very cool clock at the back.

This was so perfectly timed for me! I had just been reading about malaria in my high school biology class! Really interesting video!

“The world is getting better” People watching this in 2020

Man this channel is full of so much win. Learn interesting things in a positive and uplifting way. I've shown some of your videos to my kids (5yrs & 4yrs) and they love them, too. More of the internet needs to be like Destin.

I got malaria when I turned 1, almost died... Good times Good times

My auntie contracted malaria when she was living in Kenya, and survived to tell the tale. Another excellent video, keep up the brilliant work!

i can tell the time

I remember having malaria once The game was called farcry 2

when you said Steve-o i thought of jackass Steve-o and i was really confused

Wow this hit close to home my friend! I am sending this from a country you flew over. I take malaria prophylaxis daily, I have trouble with mosquito larva getting in water left out side, and I just talked to two peace corps folks today! I have lived here my entire life and have never gotten malaria but, I know tons of people who do. Heck my grandma got it in her bone marrow. (apparently that's rare) I appreciate you drawing attention to this. Everyone went crazy about Ebola, but malaria kills way more than Ebola ever did yearly. So far I have been protected. But the thousands of people dying of malaria all the time should not be ignored.

Destin You are an amazing guy My hero

I am very sad to hear that your sister contracted Malaria. Having done a short term missions trip to Africa, I am fairly aware of the dangers of malaria. I am strongly in favor of residential spraying of DDT on interior walls of homes to help keep homes mosquito free. While bed netting in Africa offers some protection, it is very restrictive, in that you must remain under a 6 by 6 square bed net for exactly 1/2 of your life (12 hours of day, 12 hours of night near the equator). And that assumes that there are not any holes in the net and that you don't accidentally stick your foot outside of the net in your sleep. Western countries need to lift their restrictions of DDT used in African countries.

*_G E N E R I C E A R L Y J O K E_*

You sir, are a good Christian. You spread the word without ever thumping a Bible over anyones head.

5:20 Tripeophobia TRIGGERED.

My sister is a liberal; Malaria would be an improvement.

Thank you, nice to see a video like this, I got diagnosed with malaria after getting deployed to South Korea. Had horrible symptoms but the treatment was extremely easy and I was back to 100% in about a weeks time.

When you realize that "Gold digger prank" video has more views than this one, there is something wrong with today's generation.

This is awesome! Thanks for this video!

12:10 on the clock ))

My father caught malaria in Vietnam, and it almost killed him. You never are over malaria though, its treatable of course, but still causes issues, and still no real flat out cure. 40 plus years after my father feels the effects anytime he gets a cold or the flu. Basically anything that makes him run a fever it flares it up for him. He said not long ago that it seems to be getting worse the older he gets. Doctors also believe it is what caused his Parkinson's disease.

Hey Destin i think you might wanna rephrase that "world is getting better" comment lol

I'm older, but your videos help remind why I've entered school in my 30's. To make a difference and give back to others.

DESTIN! How often will you be adding more "No dumb questions" podcasts? Is there a set time in-between the uploads, or will you be uploading randomly?

1:31 dat smuggling tho

Title: weird flex... but ok.

Awesome vid! I would love to see one on how sickle cell and malaria are intertwined!

That's a funny title

A coworker of mine contracted malaria in Africa back in his military days. It turned a strapping 200lb 30 year old into a 130lb husk, near death. Almost took him out before the treatment kicked in. Glad your sis survived.

Awesome collab

I did that exact lab work for 7 years but in UK, it's nostalgia for me :) 2:28 thick film showing plasmodium falciparum and plenty of it, mostly trophozoites, 1 gametocyte. The staining technique is better than most of my colleagues would normally have done in UK. It was perfectly made, but then we only do a couple a day, they probably do dozens over there. As a matter of fact, I had colleagues who'd come from Africa and they said generally people don't bother doing lab tests to check a diagnosis of malaria. If you have a fever, you take antimalarials in the first instance. I don't see any malarial parasites in your thin film at 3:00, but its a small section of the slide and its out of focus. Different species of malaria look different under microscope and part of my job was to identify the species. Not all species enlarge the red cells, not all make the red cells look spotty. The main thing on both of these slides is ignoring the white cells which might be freaking out your viewers. Oh and your sister probably wouldn't have died 15 years ago. Treatment hasn't really come on much since then, it's more a matter of access to treatment, and being white and able to fly home if things got really bad, she would have been fine. It's the people who can't afford to bring themselves to a clinic or buy antimalarials who are at most risk.

Who else just loves to read the end verses of each video I know I read them everytime

thank you for teaching that everybody is interconnected

Don't draw lines between data points unless you are confident the line is an accurate enough approximation of the true underlying function.

My grandfather got malaria while stationed in the South Pacific during the war. He had more or less the same story, just mostly sleeping though it.

PLEASE !!! Talk about MMS(chlorine dioxide) and Jim Humble ! thx ^^

Each ecological niche has its peculiarities, until recently my country was only controlling the disease, avoiding mechanisms of extermination mainly so that we did not interfere in nature, since the main focus was in the state of Amazonas. After several studies and conjectures, it was found that exterminating the mosquito, vector of the disease, would only reduce the diversity of the family by 1%, and that in this way there would be no significant damages in the environment in question. The main concern was that eliminating mosquitoes would eliminate pollinating agents in the same way, which in fact did not occur. In 2015 we had fewer cases of malaria, there are several techniques that can be used for mosquito extermination and control: genetic transformation (as used in the United States to exterminate Cochliomiya hominivorax, an insect responsible for causing myiasis in cattle) , bacteria in the case of Australia, or the use of drugs that is the case of Brazil, following the WHO recommendations in the synergistic applications of artemeter and lumefantrine (AL), artesunate and amodiaquine (AS + AQ), artesunate and mefloquine (AS + MQ) and artesunate and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (AS + SP) and application of insecticides.

cool

Mosquitoes:* exist * Maleria: its a me, malerio

Trypophobia warning

Blessings to both of you guys for making this world a better place.

try not to link Wikipedia websites in the Get smarter section.

I contracted malaria in Eastern India two years ago. I didn't realize that it was malaria, thought it was some kind of weird flu. I went two weeks without taking any medicine, and to be honest it wasn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be. Anyways, after two weeks and not getting over my "flu" I went to a pharmacy and was given medicine, although the pharmacist didn't say what the disease was. I found out after returning to America that my symptoms were consistent with malaria and blood testing confirmed it, but I was free from the disease by then thanks to the pharmacist in India.

My grandfather contracted malaria twice during the War where he served in the South Pacific.

I just need to say that I really really enjoy watching your videos! Keep on going!!

My granddad was in the British Artillery in World War 2 and got malaria while he was a Prisoner of War (P.O.W) camp in Burma. My mother and uncle were adopted by him when he married my Nana. The reason he didn’t have children was because the Quinine made him sterile. Thanks for educating us.

The foundation made a fantastic decision sponsoring your work. You should be an official spokesman. Thank you for the work that you have been doing to bring science to people who need to know about it

I heard about someone who recently died of malaria because the doctor mistook it for regular fever. I think it was my dad's boss's son so the idea that only poor people are vulnerable is a myth. Malaria is now easily treatable, but people still die from it because of lack of prevention and not caring because it's treatable.

Random fact: sickle cell anemia can greatly reduce or eliminate you from getting malaria. But, the drawback is the amount of pain and other issues sickle cell can cause. Double edged sword but a sign of how evolution built a resistance. Great video as always!!

How can anyone click "dislike" on this video ....or any of Destin's videos....???? This guy is out there trying to make the world a better place... He does his best to post entertaining, educational, thought provoking content... And he doesn't scream, curse, or beg for subs and likes.... his channels are truly the best of youtube... and I appreciate what he does.... If everyone in this world had half the integrity and compassion as him... This planet would be a nicer place to live..... THANK YOU DESTIN.....AND SHAME ON ANYONE WHO IS SO BROKEN AS TO TAKE THE TIME TO DISPARAGE ANY OF HIS CONTENT.....

@ 5:52 . . . so true.

My dad got malaria in Equatorial Guinea doing oilfield work. Then he got it again in Angola a couple of years later.

Well from my studies I found out that there is an interdependent relationship between malaria and Sickle cell Anaemia, Now people who have sickle cell anaemia are immune to malaria since their cells are deformed or crescent shape, But people with only one sickle cell anaemia gene (carriers) are also immune and live longer, of they are infected with anaemia they carry it without affect. They are only surviving because of each other , otherwise they would've been wiped out.

1:30 "Simple stuff, like how to get printers to work". Getting printers to work is one of the hardest subjects in Computer Science.

Destin, would love to see you make a video about the link between Malaria & Sickle Cell.

Your family is so special and amazing, you guys are a real inspiration! :)

we got Malaria so much in Mozambique, we didn't bother testing for it. Falciparum is so nasty, the faster you treat the better. We just treated most flu symptoms with anti-malarials.

That's a Hennessy hammock @ 1:47 ! Nice choice!

He should make a video ‘’my sister got COVID...I didn’t get it

In brazil we still think of malaria as incapacitating disease for a life time, in some regions in the amazon a good portion of the population has to learn how to live with the regular fevers associated with malaria.

STEVE-O?!?!?... Oh, that's not steve-o... lol

@SmarterEveryDay Destin, you and your sister are awesome people! Thanks for everything you do, and thanks for bringing the to the masses the "Smarter Every Day" VLog!

I feel like I could sit and chat with Destin for hours just about statistics and science.

3:49 why is the school name blurred?

My cousin and a close friend both got malaria, they were both vaccinated too! Glad your sister also recovered :)

You should check out the hydrophobic properties of those mosquito rafts! It's incredible...like a force field pushing away water droplets- id love to know the chemical or structural mechanism!

Please, do a video about the physics of Skiing, like the "cold hard science" ones about ice skating etc. Maybe in advance to the 2018 Winter Olympics?

ty for all dat work u put in the videos u make! keep them coming. just one of those who clicked dat "bell button".

Hi Destin, I'm not sure if you have concluded that these eggs you saw while fishing are mosquito eggs. I could offer you a different explaination: I'm studying biomedicine in Germany and just a few days ago I've learnt about many different parasites. One of them is called Shistosoma mansoni (or "blood fluke" is what google translater tells me). It is often found in standing freshwater and widespread in Africa. It's between host is a freshwater snail. If animals bath in this water, Shistosoma mansoni makes it's way directly through their skin. The symptoms of an infection are pretty similar to those of malaria, but often the infections show symptoms in a very late state of the sickness. BUT these eggs appeared to be pretty huge. I've never seen real Shistosoma egss, hence I dont know their size. Parasites usually reproduce themselves asexually in the between host and sexually in the final host, so i probably am wrong by assuming these are Shistosoma eggs. Though you might want to get checked for shistosoma if you develop certain symptoms. Greetings!

@2:21 - 2:23 laminar flow!