Monday, November 26, 2007

Gates Foundation gives $100 million more to eradicate polio

To try to finally finish the job of ridding the world of polio, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Monday announced the donation of a $100 million matching grant to Rotary International aimed at prompting the international community to contribute. --- Only four countries -- India, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan -- currently report about 700 active cases of the paralytic and sometimes fatal disease. The naturally occurring disease was eradicated from the U.S. in 1979 and from all of the Americas in 1994.

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