so what do you hope to achieve with doing this? what we re hoping to achieve is to set up a platform in africa where africans can come and express their given talent. we know that africans are brilliant and we really want to lead because the pandemic, the viruses and the pathogen, they live with us. let s leverage, let s take advantage of those and study them and provide the solution. and through that, we should be able to develop this early warning system that we re talking about that will not protect only africa, but will also protect the globe. basically, that is taking knowledge of the viruses and the pathogen that do have pandemic potential. new and unknown viruses characterising emerging pathogens and using them to develop countermeasures, diagnostics, therapy, vaccines, and then work with other partners in issues like climate change and environment and disease ecology to come up with these early warning systems that are what we need in order to be to be in a better place.
centre for pandemics. so what do you hope to achieve with doing this? what we re hoping to achieve is to set up a platform in africa where africans can come and express their given talent. we know that africans are brilliant and we really want to lead because the pandemic, the viruses and the pathogen, they live with us. let s leverage, let s take advantage of those and study them and provide the solution. and through that, we should be able to develop this early warning system that we re talking about that will not protect only africa, but will also protect the globe. basically, that is taking knowledge of the viruses and the pathogen that do have pandemic potential. new and unknown viruses characterising emerging pathogens and using them to develop countermeasures, diagnostics, therapy, vaccines, and then work with other partners in issues like climate change and environment and disease ecology to come up with these early warning systems that are what we need
as partners, where we can actually share and also share their benefit, i mean, back to the communities. so it s not about charity. it s about doing something that s absolutely necessary because that s the way it should be, otherwise, we all lose, as dr ambros wong from the university of cape town in humint human genetics said. all right. so we ve got that clear. but you mentioned something there about the brain drain. you were born in cameroon where you studied, you also studied in nigeria. then you started research in malaria, and that led you to harvard university, where you spent about ten years. now you ve gone back to nigeria to set up this early detection centre for pandemics. so what do you hope to achieve with doing this? what we re hoping to achieve is to set up a platform in africa where africans can come and express their given talent. we know that africans are brilliant and we really want to lead because the pandemic, virus and the pathogen, they live with us.
to achieve with doing this? what we re hoping to achieve is to set up a platform in africa where africans can come and express their given talent. we know that africans are brilliant and we really want to lead because the pandemic, virus and the pathogen, they live with us. let s leverage, let s take advantage of those and study them and provide the solution. and to that, we should be able to develop this early warning system that we re talking about that will not protect only africa, but will also protect the globe. basically, that is taking knowledge of the viruses and the pathogen that do have pandemic potential. new and unknown viruses characterising emerging pathogens and using them to develop countermeasures, diagnostics, therapy, vaccines, and then work with other partners in issues like climate change and environment and disease ecology to come up with these early warning systems that are what we need in order to be to be in a better place. for one minute, i mean,
who is alex trebek. the well known canadian game show host. trebek hosted his record breaking show asking thousands of question. my question is do people dream of getting into the guinness book anymore? that s the subject of tonight s as a kid my brother and i poured over the beiges of the guinness book of world records. this was the internet. it showed the bizarre, the fanciful and the tragic. every boy i knew wanted to get into the book, but it seemed beyond our reach. you had to possess a god given talent or be cursed with a freakish mality. he had to be buried in a piano case. and a man so tall he was forced to spend his life taking black and white portraits with average people