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> Gates Foundation which managed to entirely rid India of polio (!!)

Uhm, that's completely inaccurate, where are you getting such data?

The Gates foundation only got started in 2000, and it isn't clear when they started getting involved in polio vaccination programs. You may give them credit for helping towards the end of the project, but vaccination against polio was started by the Indian taxpayers (Universal Immunization Program) in 1978 and reached about 50% coverage of all infants born in India (including millions of refugees/migrants from Tibet, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka) by 1984. The programs immunized hundreds of millions of children well before 2000.

[1] http://www.mohfw.nic.in/WriteReadData/l892s/Immunization_UIP...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_Polio

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4078488/

Giving all of the credit to Bill&Melinda seems like something Hollywood would do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_savior_narrative_in_film




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