But Bill Gates, billionaire founder of Microsoft, had long been giving warnings about another disease which has now reemerged in the U.S: polio. Through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the philanthropist has invested in small parts of Africa to eliminate polio completely. However, this week the alarms have gone off after a case of poliomyelitis was registered in the United States. This is indicative of a chain of transmission from an individual who received the oral polio vaccine (OPV), which is no longer licensed or administered in the US, where only inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) has been administered since 2000. “From Malawi to the United States, new polio cases are a reminder that until we eradicate polio, it remains a threat to all of us.”In April 2013 Gates made a huge capital injection to wipe out the disease.

Source: New York Times August 02, 2022 17:11 UTC