Aaron Kesel
Humans Are Free
The next deadly disease that will cause a global pandemic is coming, Bill Gates stated at a discussion on epidemics, hosted by the Massachusetts Medical Society and the New England Journal of Medicine, Business Insider reported.
“There’s one area though where the world isn’t making much progress,” Gates said, “and that’s pandemic preparedness.”
“In the case of biological threats, that sense of urgency is lacking,” he said. “The world needs to prepare for pandemics in the same serious way it prepares for war.”
According to Gates, a small non-state actor could build an even deadlier form of smallpox in a lab.
Gates presented a simulation by the Institute for Disease Modeling that simulated a new flu like the one that killed 50 million people in the 1918 pandemic. The study found if there was a new flu it would now most likely kill an astounding 30 million people within six months.
The single time in history that the military tried a sort of simulated war game against a smallpox pandemic, the final score was “smallpox one, humanity zero,” Gates said.
What’s the solution? A universal flu vaccine of course! Gates announced on Friday that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would pledge $12 million in grants to encourage the development of a universal vaccine.
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Humans Are Free
The next deadly disease that will cause a global pandemic is coming, Bill Gates stated at a discussion on epidemics, hosted by the Massachusetts Medical Society and the New England Journal of Medicine, Business Insider reported.
“There’s one area though where the world isn’t making much progress,” Gates said, “and that’s pandemic preparedness.”
“In the case of biological threats, that sense of urgency is lacking,” he said. “The world needs to prepare for pandemics in the same serious way it prepares for war.”
According to Gates, a small non-state actor could build an even deadlier form of smallpox in a lab.
Gates presented a simulation by the Institute for Disease Modeling that simulated a new flu like the one that killed 50 million people in the 1918 pandemic. The study found if there was a new flu it would now most likely kill an astounding 30 million people within six months.
The single time in history that the military tried a sort of simulated war game against a smallpox pandemic, the final score was “smallpox one, humanity zero,” Gates said.
What’s the solution? A universal flu vaccine of course! Gates announced on Friday that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would pledge $12 million in grants to encourage the development of a universal vaccine.
Read more
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