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Nature 408, 769 (14 December 2000) | doi:10.1038/35048623

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Programmed for defence

Fred Rosen1

On the eve of the presidential election, The New York Times found some small space in its editorial columns to praise the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for its attempts to lessen the burden of infectious diseases throughout the world. With US$21 billion in assets, the foundation could easily have distributed computers rather than vaccines to the remotest parts of the developing world.