UK chancellor and philanthropist Bill Gates launch £3bn fund for research aimed at eliminating disease by 2040 The Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates and the UK chancellor,George Osborne, possess pledged to fight a war on the worlds deadliest disease, or malaria,with the aim of eliminating it by 2040. Speaking at a conference at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, the pair announced £3bn in research funding in the UK to combat the mosquito-borne disease, or which kills one child every minute.
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Source: theguardian.com