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It is not surprising that government research funds in affluent countries are targeted toward the diseases that kill these countries’ citizens. It would be irrational and immoral if it were to be otherwise.



I also question the sweeping statements that the Gates Foundation is mostly responsible for Ebola eradication in Nigeria and that the current Ebola outbreak could have been minimized, if not prevented. The WHO and other organizations have been helping the countries of Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea long before Microsoft had developed Windows. Also, money and affluent countries have arguably contributed to Ebola outbreak severity due to discouraging livestock in favor of agronomy. People like to eat meat, here and in Africa, thus the appeal of eating fruit bats, an Ebola disease transmission vector in Africa.