Gates Foundation giving $46 million to SF firm to fight diarrhea SEATTLE (AP) - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is giving a San Francisco nonprofit pharmaceutical company 46 (M) million dollars to expand its research on new treatments for diarrheal disease. The grant goes to the Institute for OneWorld Health. The traditional treatment for the disease is rehydration, but the company is working on drugs that inhibit fluid loss in the intestine. Severe dehydration can kill, especially in the young and old, and OneWorld will focus on treatments for infants and young children. (Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) They could have probably saved some loot by doing the Pepto Dance. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Bad news: Diarrhea is a huge killer in 3rd world countries ( oops, I mean developing countries). Worse news: Curing it will bring even more unfortunates to the breeding age, thereby multiplying the suffering 10 fold.
oh of course...fix it with a pill instead of just finding some good water...do it the easy, and most profitable way...
Why do the poor people in those countries get free medicine, and the poor people in US/Canada cannot? Let's take care of our own first, I say!
Indeed. In the end, there are going to be mass deaths from starvation and poor sanitation due to overpopulation.
Using that line of logic, maybe we shouldn't help them at all. Oh, can't do that, they have raw materials that we need, and we've got to get their permission to mine, or drill for them. Looks like the Chinese are taking care of that problem, i.e., paying realistic prices for the materials, etc., so maybe they won't be so poor for so long. Gates is doing a great thing here, millions die of disease in 3rd world countries, and he'd made his mind up that he'll do something about it. Good for him. Art
MORE OMG...dip****s like Remix like to belittle Bill Gates....here's a clue...Bill Gates doesn't give a flying **** about you or your Jerk Offery Platform Evangelism. Another metric...how much money has Bill spent actually trying to solve problems versus how much has Steve Jobs spent on black turtlenecks....I think as a percentage Bill wins...by a ****ing landslide. Yeah, it's fun and cute to make fun of Bill if you are jerking yourself silly over Apple GUI because you really are too stupid to use a regular PC in the first place. All you Mac ***s...Bill has donated most of his wealth towards trying to fix things...Steve is just buying more turtleneck sweaters. Yeah yeah, cry monopoly money. If my OS money can buy a bowl of rice and some medicine shots for some poor black child....I'm gonna pick po' black child every time and twice on Sunday because I know my monopoly money goes to feeding some poor kid and not buying another black gay assed turtleneck sweater for Steve Jobs. Who the **** cares if both guys have more money than 95% of the world. Bill gives it back and Steve makes flavored dildos.
