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The Gates Foundation is the third-largest underwriter of global health research, trailing only the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom.

— Timothy C. Winegard The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator (2019)

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During both the past and present, commerce is one of the most efficient carriers of communicable disease.

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The religious component was only one motivation for the architects of the Crusades and was generally used as a shroud to mask their real intention, which at the core was political, territorial, and economic advantage.

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