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Bill Gates confident India can eradicate polio

Source: Time of India

New Delhi : India | about 1 year ago

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Bill Gates praised the Indian government's efforts to fight polio and predicted Wednesday that with the help of his public health foundation significant progress will be made in the battle to wipe out the disease. Gates, who co-chairs the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with...

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