Bill Gates Donates $258 Million to Fight Malaria

klubar writes to tell us that Bill Gates has donated approximately $258 million to fight malaria. From the article: "Malaria research accounts for about one-third of 1 percent of the total amount of money spent on medical research and development, even though it accounts for 3 percent of all the productive years of life lost to diseases, according to a report released Sunday." Gates was quoted saying "The report confirms what has been clear, and that is that the world isn't investing nearly enough in malaria R&D."

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At Least Bill Sees the Seriousness of Malaria

[use_compress]

Malaria causes more deaths in children under 5 years old than even AIDS. (http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/impact/) Bill is certainly doing the right thing and I'll feel a bit less dirty writing this post on a WinXP machine because of it.

Anti trust

[Anonymous Coward]

I still think it is wrong for Microsoft to get into the anti virus market.

Re:Bill screwed up with the wife again

[Petronius]

Talk about witholding sex in exchange of "helping"! Shheeeesh.

Re:Let's give a hand to Bill

[SnarfQuest]

...but he already took an arm and a leg...

DDT Limerick

[zhiwenchong]

A mosquito was heard to complain
That a chemist had poisoned his brain
The cause of his sorrow
Was paradichloro
Diphenyltrichloroethane

Heh heh... from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT

Re:Reminds me of John D. Rockefeller

[ville]

Actually he has to do it if he wants to get any.

// ville

won't you please think about the children?

[jjeffries]

This just proves what I've always said...

"When you support Free software, you support malaria!"
                                                              -me

What the hell's your problem? Do you like dead babies? Do you???

No, save the precious infants!

or

Yes, let's kill some babies!

Re:Let's give a hand to Bill

[tabatj]

Its the first thing he has ever done to _stop_ the spread of viruses.

Anything but more Mefloquine HCL!

[Stephen Maturin]

I'm currently in a country where Malaria prophylaxis is required... recently we switched from daily Malarone tablets to weekly Mefloquine HCL tablets. "Malaria Mondays" are also known as "movie night" because of the really bizarre dreams this shit induces.
One of my co-workers woke up in the middle of the night, standing in the middle of his B-Hut (basically a wooden tent, sleeps 8-10 with about 9'x7x per man), screaming his head off at nothing.
Last night, I dreamed I was accosted by a giant rooster wearing a shaggy fur coat, a wide brimmed velvet hat, gold chains, and big gold rings. He was giving me shit for eating eggs, and was really pissed off at me. He forced me to sit on this egg until it hatched. When the egg hatched, it was a miniature version of myself, dressed like the rooster, and carrying a pizza!