2:05pm

Fri January 28, 2011
Humanosphere

Bill Gates gives, and gets, more money for polio eradication

Credit UNICEF
A child receiving polio vaccine.

Bill and Melinda Gates are big believers in vaccines and in the benefit of eradicating, rather than simply controlling, those human diseases that have the potential for being completely wiped out.

Today, Gates and British Prime Minister David Cameron announced a combined new donation of $166 million in support of the global polio eradication campaign.

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