Ted Turner on Global Health

October 26, 2005

Polio is 95 percent eradicated. We were successful in eradicating smallpox years ago. So if you can do it with two, you can do it with others. Measles and malaria pose different problems. They're a little more daunting as far as vaccines are concerned, but there are other ways of tackling those problems that can mitigate the pain that they cause to humanity. AIDS kills a lot of children, too.:

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