Health
Bill Gates: Mosquito-born diseases ‘haven’t taken a break during this pandemic’ – CNET
Forget Shark Week: Microsoft co-founder reminds the world that mosquitoes kill many more people than Jaws.
Shark Week may have just ended on the Discovery Channel, but Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wants to remind the world that a very small creature is much deadlier than even the biggest shark. Gates declared this week “Mosquito Week” on his GatesNotes blog on Monday, highlighting a number of mosquito-related videos and articles. Every night, the tiny biting insects infect millions of people with malaria, a disease that kills a child every other minute, Gates wrote.
“Mosquitoes don’t practice soc…
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