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Gates Brandishes a Jar of Human Feces at Beijing's Reinvented Toilet Expo
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At the Reinvented Toilet Expo in Beijing on November 6, 2018, Bill Gates strode on stage holding a clear beaker of human feces to dramatize the stakes of his sanitation crusade. 'This small amount of feces could contain as many as 200 trillion rotavirus cells, 20 billion Shigella bacteria, and 100,000 parasitic worm eggs,' he told the audience, arguing that new toilets which treat waste without sewers or water represent the biggest sanitation advance in nearly 200 years. The stunt — building on the Gates Foundation's 'Reinvent the Toilet' initiative — became one of his most memorable public moments.
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