Gates Foundation Gives $7M to IDRI

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Gates Foundation Gives $7M to IDRI Xconomy Seattle — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a three-year, $7 million grant to the Seattle-based Infectious Disease Research Institute to develop improved ways to diagnose and care for patients in Africa infected with visceral leishmaniasis.The infection, caused by a parasite, affects about 500,000 people each year and is deadly in about one in 10 cases when it isn’t detected early enough, IDRI said in a statement.

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