Health Buzz: Gates Pledges $10 Billion to Fund Vaccines

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there are many things that we can do to make this Earth better.
First of all, shower together.
whats wrong with that?
the Earth needs more water and thats a great way to save water.

Dakota Pletcher of MD 1:26PM February 09, 2010

We have been brain washed for the past 80 yrs.
I get so sick hearing about all this stuff, totaling missing the main component for keeping your self healthy, "You are what you EAT".
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If your struggling with your health, this will truly change your life.
God Bless all who her and accept his Word.

Paul of CA 11:15AM February 01, 2010

all they like. they will never be healthy without access to clean water and decent nutrition.
and Drew of AZ said, "Think about it - you can sell a person a vaccine once"
seriously? looked at the vaccination schedule lately?
6 doses of DTP by 12 and don't forget your adult boosters!
3 doses of MMR by college - and don't forget your adult boosters!
2 doses of Chicken pox by 5 (college booster coming soon) - oh and then shingles vaccine boosters all your adult life.
Yearly flu vaccination!
Latest 'pandemic' vaccination - needed every year because of 'mutation'!
You don't sell a person a vaccine once - you tell them they only need one, and then 5 or 10 or 20 years later find out that that generation has traded life-long natural immunity for shortened vaccine-induced immunity, and will thus need boosters all their lives.

Sarah of NY 10:41AM February 01, 2010

Think about it - you can sell a person a vaccine once, but a painkiller tablet, viagra, face cream or hair growth tincture can all be sold many times to the same person.
Autism just happens to become obvious around the age of 1.5 years, just after a bunch of standard vaccines are usually given. You wouldn't claim that driving a car causes your kids to drink alcohol, just because one precedes the other, would you?
So all this anti-vaccine rhetoric doesn't add up.
People have autoimmune diseases precisely because their immune systems are underemployed, getting them to do some work by vaccination is actually be good against that. Not to speak of protecting your kids from infectious diseases. Children have already died of diseases that should be well under control because their parents refused to have them vaccinated.
Scientist have had ways to measure risk, and the risk of the disease outweighs the risk of the vaccination by 1000 to 1 or more. At that rate, I don't even think about whether I have my kids vaccinated.

Drew of AZ 5:53AM February 01, 2010

What makes you think you know better than a multi-billionare? Where are your sources? "More and more evidence" you don't even so much as tell us who is making these claims (aside from yourself) yet you have the audacity to accuse another person of inhumane and heartless activities.
Bill Gates needs to learn more about vaccines? I think you are the one that needs to do a little research.
I don't think I (or anyone else) would be too upset at getting cancer at the age of 30 or 40 if the alternative is dying at the age of 4 from rotavirus diarrhea.
And to kshamrock, Bill Gates isn't talking about developing NEW vaccines, he's only trying to distribute the old ones.

Mr. Argumentative 5:35AM February 01, 2010

Merck already has a vaccine for rotavirus diarrhea, They developed it more then ten years ago.

kshamrock of NJ 10:17PM January 31, 2010

Gates needs to update his information on the health risks and harm that vaccinations cause to the body. There is more and more evidence showing a direct cause-effect link that vaccines cause cancer, Gilliam-Barre Syndrome, infertility, miscarriages, autism, and more!! Vaccines wreak havoc on the immune system. Vaccines DO NOT prevent disease. God bless all of those innocent and helpless victims who will receive these vaccinations. They will be used as guinea pigs, test dummies, etc. But wait, perhaps that is the real intention, to poison those most vulnerable so as to "decrease the surplus population". Gates should be stopped! Big Pharma should be stopped as well and vaccines need to be banned permanently!!!

D. Boss of MA 2:39PM January 31, 2010

Bill thinks he doing the right thing and at least he's doing something, which is more than most of us can say.
Problem is that there will be huge profits from the companies that make the vaccines and this is not the fix.
Matt Stone at 180degreehealth has many of the answers regarding health and we need this kind of new thinking to help solve our health problems worldwide.

Ron of TX 11:16AM January 31, 2010

Awww, how sweet. Bill Gates and all the globalist elitist philanthropies really love all the little children in Africa, the tooth fairy is real, and George W. Bush and Obama love all the little children in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Look up these terms on Wikipedia: 'Eugenics', 'Compulsory Sterilization' (particularly the section 'United States'), 'Biological Warfare'.
"It's all for the children... You aren't against helping the children, are you?!"

Jeeves McGilikutti of SD 10:50AM January 31, 2010

That's very noble of Bill, but spend just $1B more to debunk the wildly inaccurate "DDT is bad" myth and save another 11 million child (3000 per day) from dying of malaria. And, oh, 10 or 11 billion dollars isn't even half of just the interest his money is expected to earn over the next 10 years. So add the other half of just the interest to pay for the food to feed the children who are lucky enough to be saved. Just a thought.

Ted of TX 11:21PM January 30, 2010