Bill Gates who spoke at the Munich Security Conference in Germany yesterday made this known:
"It's time to
redirect some of the money the world spends on weapons to prepare for a looming
threat: terrorists with pathogens. He's warning that the threat of
bio-terrorism is "right up there with nuclear war and climate
change."
He says it's now
necessary for the world to prepare for what he considers to be one of its
largest existential threats: the next pandemic.
"Whether it occurs
by a quirk of nature or at the hand of a terrorist, epidemiologists say a
fast-moving airborne pathogen could kill more than 30 million people in less
than a year. And they say there is a reasonable probability the world will
experience such an outbreak in the next 10 to 15 years" he said.
The most recent pandemic
was even more deadly than that, Gates pointed out. A flu outbreak that occurred
naturally killed between 50 million and 100 million people in 1918.
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