Polio makes comeback in Venezuela after decades

Re:Polio makes comeback in Venezuela after decades by almostApatriot1 on Sunday June 10, 2018 @09:39PM (#17281144)

Isn't Bill Gates basically betting on this scenario not happening?

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Re:Polio makes comeback in Venezuela after decades by bertil on Sunday June 10, 2018 @09:48PM (#17281167)

I don’t think even Bill Gates was counting on something as devastating as what is happening in Venezuela at the moment. His charity needs minimally functional countries to be able to access all children.

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Re:Polio makes comeback in Venezuela after decades by almostApatriot1 on Sunday June 10, 2018 @10:12PM (#17281244)

the human development index of Venezuela is in the top half of countries world wide.

Secondly, Bill Gates was vaccinating only in countries where polio is endemic. His whole thing is once it's gone, it shouldn't come back.

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Re:Polio makes comeback in Venezuela after decades by makmanalp on Sunday June 10, 2018 @11:03PM (#17281438)

> the human development index of Venezuela is in the top half of countries world wide.

The latest UN HDI data is from 2016 - things have gone /drastically/ downhill for Venezuela since then, especially in the last 6 months.

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Re:Polio makes comeback in Venezuela after decades by dingo_bat on Sunday June 10, 2018 @09:53PM (#17281182)

Bill Gates was betting on people not getting vaccinated but still being immune?

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Re:Polio makes comeback in Venezuela after decades by buvanshak on Sunday June 10, 2018 @10:32PM (#17281328)

If that is so, Bill Gates is stupid. Because anyone with enough resources can make polio virus in a lab..

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1490301/

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