Getting rid of polio, once and for all. Vaccines reduced the disease in the U.S. by 99 percent, ... Get Rid Of Polio, Forever The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation has released its annual letter, ...

Topline. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Sunday it will donate $1.2 billion to help eradicate wild polio in the two remaining countries—Pakistan and Afghanistan—where the virus ...

Bill Gates, polio vaccines and sterilisation myths ? why do ... Gates spelled out his argument again last month when he gave a televised lecture in London entitled The Impatient Optimist in ...

Bill Gates says we must immunize children who have not been vaccinated before to eradicate polio, a move that he says is essential to ensuring a "healthier future for us all." ...

Polio is Gates' No. 1 health priority for 2011. Half his 21-page compilation of goals focuses on eliminating polio and protecting youngsters from other vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles ...

Bill Gates: We Are Closer Than Ever Before to Totally Eradicating Polio If we stop now, we could see 200,000 new cases of polio every year within a decade. 6.26.17, 2:55 PM EDT / Tom Ward ...

Bill Gates meets with a farmer in the Indian village of Guleria in May 2010 to talk about the country's polio program. India has now been polio-free for more than two years.

Stamping out polio has proved harder than anyone imagined, with the latest blow coming in the form of deadly attacks on health workers delivering vaccine in Pakistan and Nigeria. But despite the ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates discussed how far the world has come in eradicating polio at the Rotary Conference at the Spokane Convention Center Saturday evening. “Thirty years ago, there ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is increasing his foundation’s commitment to the fight against polio, as the disease increasingly appears on the verge of eradication. At last week’s World ...

Bill Gates meets with a farmer in the Indian village of Guleria in May 2010 to talk about the country's polio program. India has now been polio-free for more than two years.