Name: 【TED】Rose George: Let's talk crap. Seriously. (Rose George: Let's talk crap. Seriously.)
Uploaded: 2014-07-14T09:34:51.000Z
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and I prepared to do what I'd done most of my life:

use the toilet, flush the toilet, forget about the toilet.

And with that question, I found myself plunged

And that's because it's such an enraging,

But it had a lockable door, it had privacy, it had water,

and I did because I'm a woman, and we do that.

But that day, when I asked that question,

I learned something, and that was that I'd grown up thinking

2.5 billion people worldwide have no adequate toilet.

Forty percent of the world with no adequate toilet.

And they have to do what this little boy is doing

by the side of the Mumbai Airport expressway,

and every day, probably, that guy in the picture

because he sees that little boy, but he doesn't see him.

Fifty communicable diseases like to travel in human shit.

the bacteria, the viruses, all those can travel

How? Well, that little boy will not have washed his hands.

He's barefoot. He'll run back into his house,

and he will contaminate his drinking water and his food

with whatever diseases he may be carrying

by fecal particles that are on his fingers and feet.

In what I call the flushed-and-plumbed world

that most of us in this room are lucky to live in,

the most common symptoms associated with those diseases,

It's the runs, the Hershey squirts, the squits.

Where I come from, we call it Delhi belly,

But if you search for a stock photo of diarrhea

this is the picture that you come up with.

under that green grass in a little village in Liberia,

because she died in three days from diarrhea --

because 4,000 other children died of diarrhea,

Diarrhea is the second biggest killer of children worldwide,

and you've probably been asked to care about things

than all those three things put together.

It's a very potent weapon of mass destruction.

You'll have heard of cholera, but we don't hear about diarrhea.

It gets a fraction of the attention and funding

We know, because in the mid-19th century,

installed systems of sewers and wastewater treatment

and the flush toilet, and disease dropped dramatically.

The flush toilet was voted the best medical advance

of the last 200 years by the readers of the British Medical Journal,

and they were choosing over the Pill, anesthesia,