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Bill Gates: Global pandemic will kill 30 million!

Speech at Munich Security Conference

Newsroom February 20 09:13

A chilling warning that tens of millions of people could be killed by bio-terrorism was delivered at the Munich security conference by the world’s richest man, Bill Gates
Gates, who has spent much of the last 20 years funding a global health campaign, said: “We ignore the link between health security and international security at our peril.”
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 prep 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,” he said. “And they say there is a reasonable probability the world will experience such an outbreak in the next 10 to 15 years.”
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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