


"Whenever you can eradicate one of these infectious disease, you get these exponential benefits. Polio’s the extreme example where we’re near the magic number of zero, so the $2 billion that the year spends protecting kids against getting polio, the day you know you’re at zero — you have to really know you’re there — then you save the $2 billion. And, you know, that happened for smallpox. Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it. It’s financially the best thing that ever happened because we’re saving all that money forever after."
Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’
Bill Gates wants to save a lot of lives. In this interview, he tells me how.
"Whenever you can eradicate one of these infectious disease, you get these exponential benefits. Polio’s the extreme example where we’re near the magic number of zero, so the $2 billion that the year spends protecting kids against getting polio, the day you know you’re at zero — you have to really know you’re there — then you save the $2 billion. And, you know, that happened for smallpox. Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it. It’s financially the best thing that ever happened because we’re saving all that money forever after."
Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’
Bill Gates wants to save a lot of lives. In this interview, he tells me how.

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Antibiotics could cure 40% of chronic back pain patients
Scientists hail medical breakthrough by which half a million UK sufferers could avoid major surgery and take antibiotics instead