The Technology, Entertainment and Design is an annual conference during which many of the people who had created smart things for the world gather to discuss about politics, architecture, genetics and charity.

Bill Gates participated at the TED event this week and brought a jar full of mosquitoes with him. The long-term image of Microsoft held an 18-minute speech, during which he had tried to explain the audience that the most important thing in helping the underdeveloped nations isn’t to provide them with computers, but to provide lifesaving healthcare.

Gates retired from his active contribution to Microsoft and is now working together with his wife, Melinda, at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 

During the TED conference, the co-founder of Microsoft stated that the most important problem which the underdeveloped countries still have is the mosquito-borne malaria. He added that there is no motive that only the poor people get to suffer from it and released the mosquitoes into the audience in Long Beach, California.

Yet, Gates calmed down the audience and told them that the mosquitoes he had released weren’t infected with the virus that causes malaria. In addition, one of his spokespersons confirmed Gates’ words and added that only ten mosquitoes had been released during his conference.

A touch of anxiety could be felt in the packed auditorium as Gates was speaking about one of the number one killers, malaria. The disease kills almost one million children every year and infects 200 million people all around the world. According to Gates’ speech, the majority of these infections and deaths take place in the underdeveloped tropical parts of the world.

Microsoft’s bright mind, Bill Gates, said that he and his wife’s foundation is now fighting against this terrible disease by creating a vaccine which is going into testing in a couple of months.