Bill Gates on the anti-vaccine movement
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Bill Gates speaks to Peter Mansbridge about the anti-vaccination movement.
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There are pockets, and significant pockets, of the country where vaccines aren't happening
because of those, you know, the anti-vaxxers, or whatever you want to call them,
who have made significant headway in trying to convince parents they shouldn't vaccinate children.
I was just looking at new data today from Orange County, California,
with more than a few schools showing between 40 and 60 percent children not vaccinated.
You could say we're a victim of success.
In the countries where you have measles all the time, nobody gets confused about this.
Do you get mad about it?
I get more mad about the deaths we're not avoiding.
I spend, you know, my time on the countries where you still have, in the case of measles,
over 300,000 kids dying a year.
In the case of diarrheal diseases, over a million a year.
There's six million kids a year still dying.
Why aren't we getting vaccines out in Africa for diarrhea, for respiratory disease?
Why don't we have a vaccine for malaria?
Those are the things that I, you know, I push forward.
I wouldn't say I get angry, but I'm really impatient that we're not moving as fast as I'd like.
You can catch the full interview this weekend on One on One.
On Saturday, it's on CBC News Network at 6.30 Eastern.
Or on Sunday, tune in to CBC Television at 12.30 local time.
That's one o'clock in Newfoundland.

