Medicine & TechnologySpeaking before an audience in April 2018, via an event which the New Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and the Massachusetts Medical Society hosted, Bill Gates expressed what he believed, saying, the world needed to be prepared for pandemics in the similar serious manner it usually "prepares for war."
As a precautionary measure, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization or GAVI announced on Thursday that it would invest $178 million to create a stockpile of 500,000 Ebola virus vaccines.
Bill Gates has always been on the techy side. Aside from being the co-founder of technology giant Microsoft, Bill Gates is also into using other services and he just ventured on using the popular Chinese messaging and chatting app, the WeChat.
Forty years ago today, on April 4, 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft. In the beginning, the small tech firm developed and sold BASIC interpreters. At the time neither Gates nor Allen had any idea that they just started what would become one of the largest software firms in the world.