Bill Gates talks with polio survivors

Why is polio eradication important? On his recent trip to Brussels, Bill Gates sat down with polio survivors and their families (hosted by Jacob Beautemps from Breaking Lab) to learn about their experiences with this preventable disease.

“I contracted polio, which changed my life forever. I could only crawl. They started looking at me, imitated me, but that was just the beginning.”
- Julius Mvenyi Ntobuah
A polio vaccinator marks a young child in Karachi, Pakistan.
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