In an interview with Becky Quick of CNBC on Wednesday, philanthropist Melinda Gates urged parents to vaccinate their children because doing so “saves lives.”
Quick asked Gates if she was frustrated by the number of communicable diseases, like the measles or mumps, that are making a comeback in the country after they had almost been eradicated.
Gates, wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, said she was “very frustrated” regarding the revival of preventable diseases — and used her personal experiences with women all around the world to make her point. She explained how women she has spoken to in Africa, for example, have told her that they walked “10 kilometers in the heat” just to have access to vaccines.
“They’ve got a baby on their back and another couple with them. They’re saying, ‘Of course I want it. It’s saving my child’s life.'”
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