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Preparing For The Next Epidemic: A First Step By Bill Gates

Preparing For The Next Epidemic: A First Step By Bill Gates

by The Daily Eye Team January 21 2017, 6:16 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 38 secs

At a time when world leaders are understandably focused on terrorism and other security threats, another enemy is being largely overlooked—the next epidemic. We don’t know when the next pathogen will emerge, what it will be, how it will spread, or who will be affected, but we do know that the world is not prepared to deal with it. That was the tough lesson that Ebola (and the Zika outbreak since) taught us. Ebola claimed thousands of lives, caused billions of dollars in economic losses, and showed how vulnerable our society is to epidemics of infectious diseases. As I’ve written about before, the world lacks an effective system to detect, respond to, or prevent the next outbreak.

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