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2025-05-19 21:28:28 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: B8743330737E3C01AAF404DF693199C8F0A64CEF830E2810E06EE8C70E86C5CD
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There is no evidence that 491,000 children were paralyzed due to a polio vaccine in India by Bill Gates. Numbers from the WHO show that there have been 17 cases of vaccine-derived polio in India since 2000. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/23/facebook-posts/anti-vaxxers-spread-conspiracy-about-bill-gates-an/ https://newsmeter.in/bill-gates-has-neither-been-expelled-from-india-nor-polio-drops-paralyzed-children https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/false-claims-of-gates-vaccine-paralysing-girls-in-india-resurrected/
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