BILL GATES: “Bugging” VIPs To Make Point About Malaria

Last week at the annual TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conference in Long Beach, CA, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates released a jar of mosquitoes into the crowd of high-powered businesspeople, celebs, and other bigwigs, stating, “There’s no reason only poor people should have the experience.”

The mega-philanthropist was delivering a presentation about one of his passions, malaria education and eradication. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation last year announced it would provide $168.7 million to the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative to help develop a vaccine for the deadly disease, which infects 350-500 million people per year, and takes the lives of approximately one million, the majority of whom are  young children.

Check out the video below. Pretty cool stunt, and one perhaps only Mr. Gates could get away with!