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[Ed. note: Let's pray that these researchers don't use thimerasol in their vaccines or pesticides in their efforts to fight disease-spreading insects. That would kind of defeat the purpose, know what I mean?]
Gates Funds $436 Million Worth of Radical Health Projects:
SEATTLE – The Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative, a major effort to achieve scientific [...]

(AP) Flesh-eating bacteria cases, fatal pneumonia and life-threatening heart infections suddenly are popping up around the country, striking healthy people and stunning their doctors.
The cause? Staph, a bacteria better known for causing skin boils easily treated with standard antibiotic pills.
No more, say infectious disease experts, who increasingly are seeing these “super bugs” - strains of [...]