“Malaria is spread by mosquitoes,” said Gates, according to news service Agence France-Presse. “I brought some here. I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected,” the Microsoft chairman told stunned observers, according to AFP.
Gates immediately began laughing maniacally and shortly thereafter flew away in his airship, exclaiming that mosquitoes would soon rule the earth once again. Calls to his secret volcano bunker were not returned.