A $ 12 Million Contest From Bill Gates!

Bill Gates is organizing a contest, aiming to accumulate the attention of scientists on an important topic. Bill Gates made the contest announcement at a health conference.

Bill Gates announced the competition award
The Massachusetts Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine organize an annual event that involves panelists and speakers on a health-related topic. The main theme of your event this year was the epidemic (epidemic disease). Efforts to combat threats such as HIV and malaria were also actively spoken by Bill Gates.

Today, we have vaccines, drugs and diagnostic tools that help me immune more effectively than the first time illnesses are passed. Gates said that the world should prepare for the war for the pandemics (epidemics that are effective throughout the world) just as the world is preparing for war.

Bill Gates announced a work for the Gates Foundation to develop the 'universal flu vaccine' for this struggle. For two years with the Grand Challenge, promising proposals for the universal flu vaccine will provide $ 150,000 to $ 2 million in funding. Subsequently, projects that show promising evidence of success in animal models will be eligible for a $ 10 million grand prize.

Epidemics are as dangerous as wars
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that between 290,000 and 650,000 people die each year due to seasonal influenza. So standing on this issue is very important for a more livable world.

Bill Gates made a contest announcement, emphasizing an epidemic that could result in 30 million deaths. He also said that while governments are standing against a silo that will kill 30 million people, there is no sense of urgency in stopping against a biological silage.

The Gates Foundation wants vaccine developers to be ready for clinical trials in 2021. Today's epidemic may not be in science fiction standards, but we should be prepared for this epidemic anytime soon. For example; The availability of West Africa's H1N1 virus was costly and many people lost their lives because of the ebola.

A report published by Oxford's Global Priorities Project in 2016 showed that besides nuclear warfare, the greatest risk is that a natural pandemic is now faced with civilization.

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