The Buzzkill Army is here!
In a world where disease mosquitoes wreck havoc, it’s time to embrace a radical approach–reclaiming the wisdom from science and validation from eminent scientists to solve the mosquito problem from its root.
Good morning friends and welcome to 73rd episode of Tik Tok Sunday Tik Tok we always have 49 te and we all welcome you Tech forum is proud to announce this 73rd lecture today it’s going to be a very Innovative and different topic from Prasad F who innov
And you all aware that mosquito is a big big enemy of all of us and so far so many experiments and products have come in the market but nothing has uh stopped because all the medicines or all the solutions they just repel the mosquitoes they don’t kill but here is a innovator
Who has stopped the breeding cycle of mosquitoes it’s very interesting and a very very Innovative story he has recently appeared on Shard tank of Sony television and it was a very exciting dialogu with the people and with the investors apart from that he struggling for last five years to place this
Product in the market of course he has done a very good turnover in last few years and it is now launching in a big way across the globe I’m sure this kind of solution breaking the cycle because Corona if you remember we were all discussing about the this cycle breaking and we all
Followed it very thoroughly and successfully eradicated the corona so without spending much time I will request Makara to introduce our today’s speaker Mr Prasad and introduce the subject and then hand it over to Prasad for his lecture Prasad you have 40 minutes and we will keep few minutes for question and answer so
Let uh let makan VI introduce you over to makran thank you ra sir actually I don’t know whether I’m able to read his biodata as such but I will start my introduction of Mr Prasad far with the different note I met him in the dean Queen okay and as I remember actually I
I will not be able to talk much but I I already shared a lot of information with as well as with few friends and with Prasad also about the this topic I I mean to say I remember when we were uh when we met at Puna station to
Board De Queen he bought one newspaper Indian Express I think so rasad yeah was Indian Express and in that there was one news about the his Innovation and his product and until that point I was not knowing what Prasad is and what he’s doing and all that and then I read it
And then we had a little bit of chat in Boi and then he also shared one I think there was one in ganpati period I think you had one talk on DD DD news news DD news uh that talk was very interesting talk in which I think the people were so
Eminent one was from p control I think so then one was for policy maker I think he was a policy maker in government central government and the other one was prar bti director so the panel was quite uh quite eminent panel and in that I got enlightened about this product much then
I read about then we had a chat with Prasad and then he diligently gifted to me to of his product and then then I started using it immediately and then we met at in Social Innovation uh program and uh I’m proud that he proud to announce that he he got
A award first award in citizens uh citizens Innovation social social social social huh social innovation in urban area he got award in that program and then I introduced to Mr and I thought of introducing you Mr Prasad to the this forum because though it is not it is a completely
Engineering Forum actually technological Forum but I thought of um introducing you also and your topic also to this so before making much delay I actually taking some time so that people will join more people will join okay this topic is very serious topic and very interesting topic also quite
Controversial also but as Prasad said in once while we discussing uh can I say Prasad yeah yeah go ahead like you said one time that it is cruel but it not not so cruel yeah it is cruel but it is not so cruel yeah because it’s a matter of survival
Of our human race and the the disease or whatever the consequences of the mosquito is not that happy they are not at all tolerable and they are not at all good to have so that is a really concern and that actually it has nothing to do with cleanliness
And I mean to say slum or anything like that I hope so this denu malaria and chicken three and zika you said those are all related to the all the community all all the people all over the globe before proceeding any further I will I request Prasad
To start his presentation thank you prad okay uh thank you R sir thank you viya sir for giving me an opportunity this morning to talk to your esteemed audience my name is Prasad F and I am the founder and CEO of a company called as ecobot traps
Uh couple of things number one there is going to be no PowerPoint so that’s that’s good but I’m going to show you some things live and we are going to talk about it to make it more interactive uh number one so there’s no PowerPoint nothing fancy stuff right
Number two everything that we are going to talk today is going to be based on science you know it’s going to be very very science scientific Focus you know that’s that’s number and number three largely we are going to talk about you know I’m stealing the words from Dr Naran morti is
Compassionate capitalism you know that’s that’s what we are talking about so what’s ecob biot traps you know first we are an we are a far profit social Enterprise uh focused on protecting lives from dangi malaria chicken gunia zika hatia you know which is entis and they and these are diseases
Which are caused due to mosquitoes due to moscit right uh that’s what we do um now why why did we pick up this problem uh couple of facts the most lethal predator on the planet is not the machine gun that was used in World War I
It is not the uh at at bomb that was used in World War II you know the most lethal predator on the planet is ITA mm this tiny 5 mm mosquito because it is responsible for the deaths of 1 million people every year in the world 10 lakh people die because of Deni
Malaria chicken gunia zika right more than half of the world’s population 4 billion is susceptible to all of these diseases right that makes it the most lethal predator on the planet and you know mosquitoes have killed more number of people in Humanity’s lifetime than the number of wars that we have fought
Including the two that are that are currently ongoing okay so that’s why it makes the most lethal predator on the planet okay and so what are we doing about them you know what are we doing to protect them to protect ourselves what are the mitigation that we are doing
When we talk about Deni malaria and chicken G or mosquitoes in general Okay Age Old method Baba which is squatting literally kill them like this right all of us do that or we use these days you have rackets right you know in which you kill one by
One by one or you have electric machines that come in that release carbon dioxide and then that carbon dioxide attracts the mosquito and then it traps and kills it so this is one by one by one excellent very good way of doing it right then we do fumigation and fogging
Right that’s what we do to to tackle that problem which essentially kills them repels them whatever right and then the other thing that we do is we put incense sticks these days you have got aurvedic herbal incense sticks you have vaporizers that you put in uh electric
Sockets and then you apply body and lotions the cream on your body right which is on on your body all these things essentially repple them away which is you know you are shifting the problem you’re saying don’t bite me bite the guy next door I give a damn that’s that’s
What we have been doing right so either we kill them one by one we do fogging springing or we reppel them away which we shift the problem now in spite of doing all of this for last 126 years now malaria was discovered in sikandrabad India not other any other place you know
Discovered by Sir Ronald Ross on August of 20th for which he won a noble so sir Ral Raj discovered malaria for last 126 years we are living now today in an era of artificial intelligence deep learning machine learning right we have today come so far across that we are sending missions to
Mars Moon yeah probably even sun right being very successful out of that and still we have not been able to solve a problem of Tangy malaria or a tiny mosquit right there is for get vaccine for Deni there is no prescribed medication for dingi there is no nothing
None that exist right you have two things only one is you know you either take the leaf of the papaya and then juice it out and that’s also one spoon these days people have converted that into the yellow color tablet that’s it or then second is your platelet transfusion you
Know that thing or then the the third thing is 125 years today with all you eminent Engineers technologists all of us together sending all of these we have to pray to God just to save a person from Deni really 120 in this era I mean have you even thought about it seriously
It’s ridiculous right so um so that’s the that’s the most important thing on why there is a why there is a problem right the problem is still persist and if we go now to the science of the mosquitoes on why does this why is why
Are we not able to solve it the reason we are not able to solve it is because we have not paid attention to the science ladies and gentlemen science is only going to help us win this war with Deni malaria and chicken bu nothing else science right and we are not paying
Attention to the science that is why the problem persist okay so what is science telling us science is telling us four things number one only female mosquitoes bite male do not bite okay their lifespan is extremely short 15 to 30 days for a female male is about 7even
Days right so human parland if if human average lifespan is 70 to 80 years female mosquitoes only live for 15 to 30 days okay number three they breed only in water and no other place okay they breed in water and no other place right and when they breed when she goes to lay
Eggs when she goes to breed in water She lays anywhere between 500 to, eggs okay which basically is telling you that the next time a mosquito has bitten you you know it’s a female and you have d donated blood to create three CR or 30 million mosquitoes in that one
Month life lifespan so one bite results into those many number of mosquito which is also telling you that the rate at which mosquitoes multiply will beat covid hands down okay and what did we learn from covid that if you have a massive Force multiplier the way to get out of that
Massive Force multiplier is to break the chain and what we are doing for mosquitoes currently is squatting them or killing them one by one by one the adult I don’t know when we are going to kill three CR mosquitoes by one bite imagine the humanity and number of bites
That we get it’s absc right we’re never going to reach the goal now you understand why we are not ever going to reach the goal because we are killing them one by one our second thing that we are doing is we are repelling them away which is Shifting the problem not
Solving it we just reppel them away don’t bite me bite some other person and that’s it so we looked at the problem and said okay here’s this Holy Grail there’s a huge opportunity for us to build a device right that mimics the breeding ground of the female mosquito and then you know
Cut the reproduction cycle break the chain the way we did that was put this device in place you know this is made out of by recycling corrugated boxes so your number one waste generator today is the corrugated boxes the Amazon boxes that come to your and my houses Amazon
Flip cart all of e-commerce quick commers right so you take that you clean the plastic remove all the dirt turn it into a pulp put it into a Dy and mold format like this right and then after you put it in a d and f mold format like this you we
Attach a Sach to the bottom the sachche has two things it has an attractant and killing ingredient and the device comes to you exactly like this all you have to do is add water to this device and now let’s go back to the science and look at how this would work so the
Science says only female mosquitoes B they breed only in water right so you add water to this and you keep it indoor Outdoors directly away from sunlight the mosquitoes will get attracted to this right because of a water the science second the attractant which is provided so they’ll come they’ll lay egg over
Here and then the killing ingredient the medicine that is there inside of the sachche will ensures that there are no adults that emerge out so when she lays egg those 500 into 500 into 500 Force multiplier is STO you break that chain and that’s it you know doesn’t emit any
Fumes doesn’t require any electricity you know after adding water will last for 30 days 4 weeks and one of this will cover an area of four weeks as simple as that you know just add water to this device now what you know similar analogy what our forest
Department does if you have to catch a maner tiger or a leopard your option number one is take a tranquilizer gun and run behind it which is or second is you put the bait inside of a cage which is the food for him to draw the predator and then trap it this
Is identically that it mimics that breeding ground and after mimics mimicking that breeding ground you know it traps it and it kills its uh reproduction it kills its eggs ensures that no adults come out the one question that I get oftenly asked is there are so
Many water bodies why would it come to this water body versus any other water body and the reason behind that is the reactant which is provided inside going back now to the science the science says she’s only lives for 15 to 30 days which basically means after she
Has dropped her eggs and since they are not mammals after she has dropped the eggs she does not see her eggs her children turn into an adult she doesn’t see them grow up so when a mother knows that I’m not going to see my children grown up largely as parents we are going
To think about about three things Roy Capa and Maan the Capa and the Maan is the container which can be available any place else also but what is not available on the other place is the Roy this is the food that is provided which attracts her that she knows oh my
Children have food here have water here have everything that is required and hence I’ll prefer this container this and container with an attractant versus everything else and that’s how it works the second question that I get most of the time asked about is you know how
Much time do we see so this is not a repellent or an adult killer that you will start to see its immediate effect you know like you install this and in hours so now let’s understand back the cycle of mosquitoes you know after laying egg after laying egg till the
Time they turn into an adult is anywhere between 4 to seven days okay so that cycle needs to break right so after installing the device you will see the density reducing slowly from day five and about day 8 or 10 you will feel the Maximum Impact right so those are those
Are the two things on how this works so what would we do with this product right we take we we we build this product and then we decided to take it into the world’s most difficult terrain for last two years now this is third year in the
Row in a slum close to Mumbai or probably the world knows of it is called as dhavi dhavi had huge epidemological data incidences on Deni and malaria number two the terrain is very difficult you can’t even open an umbrella and walk on inside of dhavi right so we decided okay
Let’s test the product straight in dhavi and work with the Bombay Municipal Mumbai Municipal Corporation and its incubator smile uh who gladly supported us and then we went inside of the Davi deployed these traps you know which were which are scientifically based you know are the other thing that I forgot to
Tell you when we talked about so much about the sciences that out of the top you know 50 vector enologist or in layman’s term mosquito scientist four of them serve on our board four of the people are who are validating this including padmasri adya Prasad Dash you
Know Dr our very own punar Dr subash Sal the former director general of health services for government of India Dr dingra the former DG for National vector control board Dr susanta Kumar Goos who India thanks for his discovery of gambusia guppy fish when he was the director and head scientist G at icmr
And IMR so those with the scientist with a protocol built on wh’s longitudinal study we put the device to test in Davi and the results were outstanding this year now look at out of the 24 WS in Davi it would always come in you know number one number two number three top
Three of the charts this year it doesn’t even appear in top 20 out of the 24 at 2122 so right so because the DraStic population density decreased the disase incidents eventually went down and now citizens of dhavi are are productive right so after seeing that we approached you know best Corporation of
India Pest Control India rentokill PCI the countries and the world’s largest Pest Control provider to now take this product into the B2B segments which is your hotels hospitals you know schools all of them you know manufacturing facilities it facilities to take them into the market and uh and
And basically have a have a commercial Model A Commerce model for us that’s that’s we are selling right now right also little couple of things on Deni particularly Deni is a day biter so your protection of you know doing disease protection starts to get limited right because you have to have massive outdoor
Uh protection right you can’t wear bednets you can’t apply those you know repellants and you know creams on your body and be moving out during your daily life right it’s it’s it’s not as easy as wearing a mask and moving it right so it’s it’s it’s it becomes incredibly
Hard because D is a is a day biter also uh if you have 100 people in a room and you add pregnant women and children the female mosquito will first bite pregnant women and children and the science behind that is that pregnant women and children exhale 20 to 30 % more carbon
Dioxide and their body temperatures are 1 to 2° fahit more which makes them a delicious meal sorry for using this words but that’s the you know that’s the most prudent uh Predator that the mosquito will attack and bite now worst after it has bitten you a pregnant woman
It transforms that into the fetus resulting into still birth infant mortality anemia all of those proven by government of India’s portion one and Portion 2.0 Aban fact finding so it’s very very little right and the third though Advantage for us and I’m saying it’s an advantage because Deni only travels 100 to 200
Meters okay which means it’s not too big and it’s neither too small okay and if you have multiple of these devices installed okay now there’s another notorious thing about Deni okay uh it’s the most smartest kid that you know we always had this student when we were
Growing up in the school who was the most notorious character you know the most Mischief Monger but at the at the same point of time was the most brilliant student right so that’s DY for us in the in the moso parland right 80s species right so they do not get
Satisfied by biting one person minimum four to maximum 18 that’s why Deni transmission spreads so rapidly right that’s just one reason now here’s the second and the most deadliest reason when she bites you she’ll bite minimum four people or maximum 18 people second When She lays eggs on in one container
Although she travels only at 200 meters she will not lay eggs all of her eggs in one container she will drop 00 here 100 200 there and so on so forth and then move move ahead right so when you have in a 200 M radius products like these
Installed you can make your premise your Zone as a dangy mosquito free premise so that particular premise you can have a dangi by 4 kilometers away but not in that minimum 200 meter of premise and we can guarantee a scientific way of saying it’s a dangy mosquito free premise you
Will not have dingy incidents in that zone as long as you’re sustainably using using this product right so and then you know we did two case studies you know on on particularly dingy outbreak about three months back one in Bangalore with our Armed Forces establishment uh you
Know I obviously can’t name because of confidential reasons which organization but they had about 50 Deni cases with our Armed Forces officers and those 50 cases in manner of one month came down to three now right similarly there was an incident that happened now this name I can definitely take is Kalan D
Municipal Corporation there is this construction site of runwal over there and there were another 40 38 40 cases or so and within a month we got them down to two so it’s real meaningful impact built on science validated by scientist and a very frugal way of attacking the
Source and doing things differently and not that we have been doing for 125 years and today’s era of artificial intelligence miserably failing at that the other thing that I get asked on quite often um and you know lot on YouTube forums lot comments that what we
Are trying to do is we are trying to eradicate mosquitoes which is not good and you know all of these people Hound me so first of all scientifically okay scientifically let’s understand this eradication eradication of mosquitoes is not possible will not ever happen Okay and the and the reason behind that is as
Long as there is water on the planet mosquitoes are going to breed and if they are going to breed we are going to bleed so in if you have to eradicate a species out of the planet we have to get out water out of the equation okay and
You know while Mr gari can have alternate ative to fossil fuel with the Toyota announcement that he has done but with this wonderful construction that he has been doing in the country ask him that you know there will be no water he can use plastic to making roads but no
Water not possible right there’s no life without water so and dingi is everywhere it now is in every single continent except Antarctica every single country it’s on fo foot foothills of Himalayas right and and that’s what it is you know uh you know it’s spread every single
Place as of now as we speak so eradication of mosquito is not possible also note there are 3500 species of mosquito okay 3,500 out of which only a dozen full are lethal the balance are nuisance you know don’t mind me but you know like my wife
Sometimes thinks that you know I’m a new yeah she has to live with it it’s her choice it’s our choice 20 it’s not harmful right so the other species are not the ones that are lethal are mostly clean water stagnant clean stagnant water mosquitoes that’s what we
Are trying to do with the device Okay the reason there is diseases is because of clean stagnant water davi’s problem is not the dirty polluted Mitty River that is flowing in there no you know disease mosquitoes do not breed in polluted Waters they breed in clean waters you know malaria and steni Deni
Zika chicken gunia which is our 0s egypti or 0s albas or any of the 0s family all are clean stagnant water breeders right and what we are targeting is we are targeting those clean stagnant water breeders and not the humanity of the mosquito population which in any
Case is even if we go to Target is not going to happen but we are intentionally focused on providing citizens in the world protecting lives from Deni malaria chicken Gia disease mosquitoes and and you know not worry so much about the ones that do not cause the disease right
Uh and that’s the other thing that I get hounded on a long time that you are not doing s you know how are and we are nobody as a company to eradicate one species on the planet I mean who are we no way and nobody can do it the only
Person that can do it is Mother Nature who if decides that female will not be able to breed okay then it’s a different change or it says that mosquitoes tomorrow will not breed on water and they will bleed on yeah whatever else you know yeah alcohol for all of the
Absurd things right yeah if that happens we’ll have have mosquitoes out of the equation otherwise this is a problem that we’ll have to live through um all our life you know we have to live with it we can’t leave it we can’t leave that problem and hence disease prevention and
Disease Control happens to be an imperative tool in all Vector management programs or that should be our strategy but attacking the root cause because you know when they do not breed in water and we do fumigation and fogging on plants and bushes and shrubs without even understanding whether we are impacting
The male or the female how can you dis you know disguise it’s very difficult for a naked eye to disguise whether you know it’s a male or a female doing all of these measures that we have been doing which is making them run away or squatting them killing them one by one
When you have a massive Force multiplier is going to be futile it’s just not going to work right and time and again we are doing the same thing and Deni has now four VAR iant the fifth variant is almost all then five is getting you know
Certified by wh in next couple of months which was discovered in Indonesia you’ll need to have vaccines for different for all of these you know we don’t even have one you know a vaccine for like one of them struggling with it until the time we have that and I’ll not get into the
Pros and cons of the vaccine that’s a different subject but you know our only remedy right now is to like we did in covid break the transmission cycle Break the Chain by using devices like that with that ladies and gentlemen that’s all I had to say uh this morning and I’m
Happy to take any questions and once again R sir and W sir thank you so much for giving me an opportunity hello now the session is open for the question and answer I request all the members to ask any query or any question Prasad if they wish to
I think first identify your name and then fire the question I have one that I can see on the chat box if R sirya sir if you are okay for me to kind of read it out and then answer it is that okay yeah okay okay go go ahead go ahead okay so
There’s one from Mr mea which says that is only this bucket must or any bucket plus this sachche is must and any immediate or long-term provision but new mosquito will come okay he said he’s got the answer and he’s asking about the uh about the price so you know what this is
Called so the pregnancy position of the mosquitoes is called as OVI position okay uh I mean the labor pain right it will only go to breed in the water when like a female experiences labor pain that’s where the mosquitoes goes into breeding of the water also largely one
Thing on science that I didn’t talk about is that and it’s a any funny anecdotal stuff that mosquitoes do only three things in life only three things no fourth thing only three things one they M second they suck blood and third they breed that’s it rinse repeat you know
Luckily Zuckerberg hasn’t done a Facebook or Instagram for them to do anything or you know nobody posts WYA doesn’t post jobs on LinkedIn for them to go find jobs okay so none of that is happening till the time you guys do some intervention that you know we make
Mosquitoes entertain not to bite but to watch Netflix and binge watch it we are safe so till the time that doesn’t happen they do these three things you know only 15 days for the female and seven seven days for the mail that’s what they do right so 25 years back wh
Got this thing called as you know OV traps which was essentially made out of plastic and it’s not so much about plastic and stuff like that okay because that’s a long-term use plastic you know you’ll never have a problem with your Dustbin because you’ll use Dustbin for
10 20 years right you use our bucket for you know water so all of that right it’s not single use it’s multi multi several years so that’s still fine you know we’ll debate on that later but plastic wasn’t the problem the problem was the killing ingredient inside of this the
Medicine or whatever is that action The Killing action whether it’s a medicine or in our case where we are using non-m medicine pure Green Solution it’s basically surface tension that we have now launched the product with in its version to AAR but anything that you do now has limited efficacy of action you
Know one month 15 days seven days right so imagine you use a plastic instead of this right you add the attractant you add the killing ingredient and after one month you will have to go and change this sa okay now that is is extremely hard what if you miss one so
Let’s take a look at our vaporizer that we use right we put a vaporizer in the socket okay after one month the liquid inside of it runs away because you have used it right now even if you don’t use it it will not CM any harm you know it
Will not spread anything it will not be the victim will never be a perpetrator right if you know what I mean right it will not cause any harm yeah you will mosquitoes bite will keep happening to you and all of that but the device itself will not cause any harm now if
You fail to recharge this sache inside of that plastic container assuming this was a plastic container if you fail to recharge notice it will now become a breeding ground and then that breeding ground is 500 into 500 that one bite into three CR multiplier which means you are actually Taking Lives of
People rather than protecting lives and that is why public health and government organizations will never approved anything that is made out of plastic what they were always looking at a device that will Auto disintegrate after a month so that then it becomes doesn’t become a breeding ground after one month
The water inside of this bucket slowly starts to leak out it becomes soggy because there is no water as they have you know they saying in Hindi right so if there is no water there is no retention there is no risk of it being a breeding ground and even
If you forget to recharge you don’t need to worry you don’t need to worry about uh 308 uh yeah there’s another question that I can see uh which comes up you know does oh no this has it has zero insecticide and pesticides zero you know the way we do
The killing action is basically by using a surfactant anybody of you in organic chemistry know that this is the same thing so you know it comes in cosmetics imagine you leave your you know the lipstick that that ladies girls women use right if you leave it open you know because of
Moisture it should start immediately to tuck down what doesn’t happen is because there is silicon inside which ensures that the oxygen supply inside is cut similarly The Killing mechanism that we use inside has has now in its version two alar surface tension silicon molecule include so what it does is it forms a
Thin coat of which is not visible to naked eye on the surface of the water so after breeding the eggs and The larva that emerge out do not get oxygen and they die by Suffocation the other beautiful part of not using an insecticide and pesticide as we all know
With humans and so with pests you know you develop resistance to all of these eventually right however the mechanism that I told you is a mechanical action you know I can take a vaccine but if Mr weya fires a bullet at me I’m going to be dead unless otherwise I don’t have a
Body armor That vaccine is not I can’t you know there’s this English saying you don’t have you know Dying by a Thousand Cuts right so you don’t you if you don’t have a body armor your vaccine is not going to prevent you by the knife cut it’s not just not going to work
Similarly because that’s a mechanical action similarly this is a mechanical action so tomorrow they will never ever develop a resistance and obviously you get an insecticide pesticide pre uh pre solution in terms of the other question that sud G has asked which how do you dispose this off so you just dispose
This off as um a dry waste uh you know in your garbage recycling stuff and then it will go to the same kabar Wala the same bangar Wala with whom we will take it back also notice as I said to you right this is made by recycling corrugated boxes so waste to protecting
Lives right the reason it companies start are looking at us very aggressively because they are generating lot of waste by doing this corrugated boxes and from their waste now they are able to protect their emplo employees right a persistent system uh infosis campus now becomes Deni mosquito free
Tomorrow our colleges which are all you know because Deni is a day biter become a Deni mosquito free premise in a very very scientific way you know uh go maam is asking where do I get um information of all of this it’s on our website ma’am
Eobot traps.com or even if you Google US you’ll find lot of my interviews uh you’ll find my Pune Innovation uh Society uh lecture that I did which won us an award at Dr marel C sir’s National Conference on social Innovation event where I met R sir over there for the
First time so you’ll find bunch of documents um over there of course the pricing and the product is available on Amazon uh if you are an Institutional person looking at for your hotel Hospital restaurant bestest control India rentokil PCI the country and the world’s largest of you know thousand
Locations 300 districts 22 States and 5500 Army is ready to deplo this product to make your commercial Prem is a Dy mosquito free um yeah there are uh there are various you know Dr mea says is NAFTA attracts so sir you know you have to look at whom
Are you attracting the mosquito but in what stage of the mosquito okay uh like I said we have electric Killers today that emit carbon dioxide and attract the adult but by attracting the adult you are just killing the adult one by one by one the problem is is like that is
Because we are not focusing on the root so the Napa attractant is good to the adult but not to the female when she is breeding to kill her 500 into 500 into 500 cycle because with Napa what you doing is you are imitating her to become
The you know the human host and then trapping it but if that escapes then you still have the 500 Force multiplier that will be there I hope Mr MAA your all questions were answered um are there any more questions think MAA is happy so any more
Questions please yeah I can ask one uh how Prasad how you can selectively eliminate the breed uh actually you know it’s it’s a very interest and you we could if we are intentional about it we can very uh very easily do it now for example let’s look
At malaria okay uh you know there are largely three cities only in urban areas where there is malaria you know which is Mumbai Kolkata and Chennai only three cities otherwise malaria is a rural phenomena as of now it’s a rural phenomena you’re going to the rural side you’ll find malaria there
More Deni on the contrary is everywhere I mean earlier it was an urban disease but now it’s gone into rural disease also right and both have different habitats of breeding although water but somebody prefers you know clean running water stagnant running stagnant pool rice Patty fields and so on so forth so
If we are intentional you know the health program of India you know our Public Health can take the intervention and device and be very selective about targeting which species because you know anaphes is malaria’s urban version is called as anaphes stens Sai whose Behavior pattern even though it breeds
In water is very very different than the rural version of Malia so there are these nuisances which can be tackled through effective vector control by public health authorities it’s not a citizen job you know it I mean to get to this depth is not a citizen job we can
Stay protected by using it ourselves but you have hit actually various words and phrases in all your talks and one Mr Rahul Dr Rahul marate our friend and myself he works in the field of insects and he me use their virtue of insects in some good work so in that he
Actually used this work word just now you have said about that mosquito’s Behavior he mean insects Behavior he identifies and he then uses that behavior to detect something and you are saying the same thing and they are very smart like us in humans they evolve like we talk about these Generations right
Today gen Z then Millennials and Gen Y Gen X whatever right oh mosquitoes have come so how did arbo you know where I mean why do we have mosquitoes at the foothills of Himalayas why is dy knocking at the door of France you know or in Europe right who would imagine it
Right that’s the big and the reason behind that is I’m I’m infected with Deni by the time I come to know because of the international travel and coupled with climate change I mean you know we all know they like hot humid all of those weathers so climate change is
Going to play it’s going to the situation is going to get worst with this if not better it’s going to get worse with climate change and their behavioral the Behavioral Science of mosquitoes is so very interesting you know that’s an entomology conversation that probably Mr Mar can do very well I
Asked him to actually join this meeting but he has not joined but we can discuss three of us or yeah it’s it’s a very interesting thing on how they are changing their behavior yeah and and climate change is supplementing actually accelerating it accelerating it big time and we have learned about this contous
Diseases that is spread by the various things in the childhood I think in the fourth standard yeah yeah because by the time you come to know Deni or malaria now your day four day five happens so you have moved from a Bombay to an utar Pradesh or from an lakau to a Kolkata
And it’s over right I mean look at those scenarios when you have a Deni or malaria outbreak in the hospital they are putting bed nets to cover people because there you don’t want the victim to be the perpetrator there are normal mosquitoes they’ll come and bite get
Infected and and go all of that so that’s where that’s where they what I mean to say is that mosquito biting is everywhere in the forest or where you do nature but the mosquito which carries the Deni virus is actually a problem and it spreads by biting in 18 places or
Four to 18 places I think so yeah no no so minimum number of people dingi is dangerous out of all of them minimum four maximum 18 to bite and also when it breeds like mother she doesn’t Le she’s very smart she says oh we have this English saying right do not
Put your eggs in one basket she doesn’t put all her eggs literally in one basket she will look at different water bodies to breed that’s a Dy Behavior you know very different from in malaria behavior and other species Behavior you know very very different can you share some your
Experiences in Elite locations as well as in d means both are contrast actually I’ll give you classic contrast right you know obviously you know anelia will not second this but you know we all know where Ania is Right ped Road in Mumbai right one of the most we know who lives
There we know that entire locality we know malbar Hill right the species of Deni and malaria is the same there versus what is there in DAV because because it is our ability to store water it’s not because of whom we are with a social strata intentionally or unintentionally
Water will never be available to to US 24 by7 so we store it the guys in Davi store it in those you know blue color containers for their living right in urban area we store it intentionally un you know we have SIMPLE flower pots and
Below that we put a plate and we over pour the water sometimes and it becomes stagnant over there that’s the smallest thing which is done unintentionally but becomes a breeding ground that’s why you have Municipal Corporation guys will come and say to you oh it’s there you know unintentionally you’ll keep a tire
Which is is open there is one drop of rain that will come over there and you know all they need water is this much they the if if you see our drinking water our mineral water cap or you know your Pepsi Coke that cap this much like
5 ml 10 mL that is the water that they need to breed they don’t need 10 L and 5 liters of water to breed this much is sufficient for the mosquito to breed and then you know whether you are in an urban area or rural area or you know
Whether you are in a highrise you know in mumbai’s plush Community or in Pune plus Community or living in slums you know there’s going to be problem and here’s the harder problem right you know like in dhavi you have this profession called as kumbar right which is pottery making Potter making now very
Interestingly needs three things making of pottery needs three things mud water and furnace to heat so now you’ll see if the furnace is running 3 days a week 8 10 hours then but the reason is they get more irritated by that just you know fog they hide themselves and then you know when
They when the fog resides they come out more angrily to bite you second you can’t ask a profession Artisan profession like kumbar or Pottery guys and several others construction to say don’t use water don’t store water its livelihood is dependent on that how will you not store water
Storing not storing water is not is a is a it’s a convenient way to escape the problem and say it’s not going to happen you know ever so you you got a figure ways out of of doing that irrespective you know a Deni I mean yes Chopra right
Yes G are you know celebrated filmmaker yeah he uh he his death was because of Deni so you know what stata you are where you are where you travel what doesn’t matter you know if it’s going to hit you it’s going to hit you know Prasad can you share some of
Your International and National experiences about this issue um me you said you you said you have got 50 Pats in oh no so yeah the the different countries have different problems right Africa is a very different problem to cater to Malaysia if you look at it you know everything is
Highrise their slums are also in highrise right versus spreading flatly out if you look at North American continent you know we all know in Americas and all of us have relatives or have visited americaas it’s all a flat structure right everything is not so much vertical and so you know if you are
Flater in structure that’s very easier to control than something which is vertical in structure now on the contrary people you they have also developed their you know flying distance height you know in a Bor in bori on the 21st floor of a hill you will still find mosquito breeding so
They have adapted it to to it so that becomes it very very hard to go way up than the way the way flat in there and different species are there right you know you don’t have so much of a you know West kn is pretty much in in uh in
North America if you go that’s the number one disease there which is caused by clex kind of a species right for us we don’t really have West Nile over here for us here in India Deni malaria chicken Gia and are prominent chicken Gia and zika are
Coming up you know Deni chicken Gia and zika are caused by the same species of the mosqu if you will no what I mean to say is what your interaction with wh as well the exports and tackling the problem over there apart from D Malaysia Malaysia is super interested I mean
We’ll have Malaysia announcement I guess by May the product should be adopted by the Malaysian government by may we are hitting at the doors of Nepal uh you know wh is is seriously interested this last week I was in icmr uh the same set of team who developed vaccine for us you
Know the same authorities you know were there in the room and they were also pretty they’re like oh this are substantial scientific data now for us to kind of look at it at a very different angle in terms of as a model of intervention so the more we are going
International um and taking this product the more we are seeing you know Brazil’s you know Adel tells me Brazil is um is getting into traction a big time yeah so there there lot of Zambia you know should also see the day of the light by end of the year conations and second
Thing was this this should be means as we were discussing this should be like a social movement instead of just buying one container one uh this container and then putting it at the place oh yeah somebody saying yeah somebody saying something M we will take last question now yeah
No but you’re right it has to be a big social see now you know it’s a war that against Deni malaria now you guys understand why it’s a serious War why it’s going to get worse and science is only going to help us win this war you
Know without science we are not going to help us win this war and you know as I call it it’s compassionate there is capitalism all it we are a for-profit social Enterprise but there is a compassion to the capitalism of protecting lives of our fellow citizens that’s where the social cause coming
Where all of us as individuals in our capacity do our to bit to whatever we can do to make sure we are protected and Deni is going to get worse Malia can still be under control we have vaccinations to a larger extent they will keep developing there is line of
Sign D is going to be worst worst with how it spreads it Behavior it being a day biter the number of people it bites and it being more acceptable to the urban areas where 70% now of our population lives or will live eventually is going to be a big big
Thing T is one thing that I would worry about more out of all of these DC thank you before before finishes the talk I wish to thank you for having this talk on my request and we are and as well as I will thanks thank all the members who have joined
Now R please continue yeah yeah thanks M thanks Prasad for this wonderful presentation we really appreciate your efforts and we on behalf of tech boram wishing you all the best and lot of success in this Venture because this product is going to be an international one and it’s really
Amazing efforts we should say and this is one example you have given how to attack on the root cause of the problem because nobody has done so far everybody was making the Solutions which can repel the mosquitoes but you have we have break we have broken the cycle breeding cycle that’s
Wonderful and I think it’s going to click the worldwide we wish you all the best friends next take talk is on CSR and social Stock Exchange it will be on 10th of March by Mr Anil Danes those who are looking out for funding for their social activities definitely will learn
Lot of things the social Stock Exchange is a New Concept and really going to benefit most of the social organizations were registered under NGO so don’t miss this very interesting talk I declare today’s program is over once again we thank Prasad for his wonderful wonderful presentation we have record recorded
This topic and it will be circulated in different groups I’m sure it will to more than thousand people and they will know and understand uh the implications of this Innovation thanks a lot we declare the program is over we will meet on 10th March 10:00 in the morning bye-bye byebye thank you thank
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