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Seattle Times Special
Miracle Machines: The 21st-Century Snake Oil
The Favor Factory
Confronting Malaria
Pike Place Market
Your Courts, Their Secrets
License to Harm
The Bering Sea
Olympic Sculpture Park |
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In 1999, the richest man in the world set out to defeat a parasite that kills 1 million people a year. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and wife Melinda are not the first to try to eradicate malaria. But will their foundation's billion-dollar initiative be enough?
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Gates Foundation tackles a giant The World Health Organization estimates malaria kills a child every 30 seconds. At that rate, 46,000 Seattle schoolchildren would be wiped out in about two weeks. Day One
Malaria Q&A
Day TwoDay Three
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Ripley Ballou, a research scientist for GlaxoSmithKline, spoke with The Seattle Times about testing a vaccine on himself as part of a clinical trial in 1986.
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Special section informationWhile supplies last, you can pick up a free copy of the "Confronting Malaria" special section. Malaria facts
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STEVE RINGMAN / 
Read the discussion
If we re-sorted the world and your neighbors were dying of malaria ... it would be viewed as a total crisis.
Listen to the interview
Interview with Ripley Ballou
Malaria research and prevention: The major playersScientists, advocates and others are working in different parts of the world to eradicate malaria. Dr. Salim Abdulla 
Leader of the malaria-vaccine project in Bagamoyo, Tanzania "We need a vaccine."Dr. Abdi Mohamed 
Leader of the Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Zambia "There's a ... fatalism, a feeling nothing can be done... We have to change this."Kent Campbell 
Leads MACEPA, a program to expand use of nets and spraying "We have to have a success. And we have to have it soon."Joe Cohen 
GlaxoSmithKline scientist who helped develop the malaria vaccine "There is nothing else out there today that is even close."Dr. Ripley Ballou 
Vice president for clinical research and development at GlaxoSmithKline "My whole life has been chasing this project."Patrick Duffy 
Studying partial immunity at Seattle Biomedical Research Institute "If a child makes it to age 5, parents know she's not likely to die of malaria."Dr. Chilandu Mukuka 
Deputy director, Zambian National Malaria Control Centre "If they (the Gates Foundation) are associated with Zambia, and we are getting results, the whole world will be looking."Dr. Regina Ravinovich 
Leader of the Gates Foundation's infectious-disease programs "I will do whatever works in malaria." |
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