Bill Gates compared future deadly global pandemics to a new type of “military weapon” in 2018. (via CNBCMakeIt)
he believed "the world needs to prepare for pandemics in the same serious way it prepares for war."
Gates noted that while a 2009 outbreak of H1N1 influenza wasn't as lethal as people initially feared, it did call attention to the fact that the world doesn't have a coordinated approach to help with early detection and spread of pandemics. epidemic, which killed 11,000 and infected more than 28,000. Eleven people were treated for Ebola in the United States during that epidemic, according to the CDC.Gates recalled that at the 2017 Munich Security Conference he "asked world leaders to imagine that somewhere in the world a new weapon exists or could emerge that is capable of killing millions of people, bringing economies to a standstill, and casting nations into chaos.
This should concern everyone said Gates, "because history has taught us there will be another deadly global pandemic.
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