Bill Gates, calling for global disease preparedness, to invest $12M for flu vaccine

Bill Gates is committing $12 million to develop a universal flu vaccine, with the hopes of avoiding a potential global and deadly epidemic. The announcement, made at the Massachusetts Medical Society 2018 Annual Meeting, was made as part of a broader conversation about the threat of global epidemics and the innovation necessary to stop them. Gates was the presenter of this year's Shattuck Lecture. The flu vaccine challenge is being p resented in partnership with the family of Google co-founder…
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