Experts argued that Gates’s attempts to exterminate polio would be counterproductive. Extirpating the final dwindling dead-end infections requires carpet-bombing entire regions with massive vaccination batteries, raising the paradoxical risk of vaccine-strain polio epidemics. “I can’t see myself how we can satisfactorily eliminate the vaccine-derived strains,” said Prof. Donald Henderson, a distinguished scholar at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Biosecurity. “I just don’t think it can be done.”142 Henderson is the renowned WHO epidemiologist who led the successful campaign
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