Share
by Kevin Loria | Business Insider
Bill Gates thinks a coming disease could kill 30 million people within 6 months — and says we should prepare for it as we do for war.
If there’s one thing that we know from history, it’s that a deadly new disease will arise and spread around the globe.
That could happen easily within the next decade. And as Bill Gates told listeners on Friday at a discussion about epidemics hosted by the Massachusetts Medical Society and the New England Journal of Medicine, we’re not ready.
Gates acknowledged that he’s usually the optimist in the room, reminding people that we’re lifting children out of poverty around the globe and getting better at eliminating diseases like polio and malaria.
But “there’s one area though where the world isn’t making much progress,” Gates said, “and that’s pandemic preparedness.”
The likelihood that such a disease will appear continues to rise. New pathogens emerge all the time as the world population increases and humanity encroaches on wild environments. It’s becoming easier and easier for individual people or small groups to create weaponized diseases that could spread like wildfire around the globe.
According to Gates, a small non-state actor could build an even deadlier form of smallpox in a lab.
And in our interconnected world, people are always hopping on planes, crossing from cities on one continent to those on another in a matter of hours.
Gates presented a simulation by the Institute for Disease Modeling that found that a new flu like the one that killed 50 million people in the 1918 pandemic would now most likely kill 30 million people within six months.
And the disease that next takes us by surprise is likely to be one we see for the first time at the start of an outbreak, like what happened recently with SARS and MERS viruses.
If you were to tell the world’s governments that weapons that could kill 30 million people were under construction right now, there’d be a sense of urgency about preparing for the threat, Gates said.
White Horse Media’s newest video (only 4+ minutes) is about Israel, Iran, red heifers, the Temple Institute’s plan to rebuild a third Jewish temple, Antichrist, and Bible prophecy. Writing specifically about how “the man of
Here’s some exciting news. This morning I was a guest on The Stew Peters Show (he has a very large audience) for 30 minutes discussing popular end-time theories about Israel, the Tribulation, a rebuilt temple,
In “the time of the end,” stated a holy angel to Daniel the prophet, “many shall be purified, made white, and tried; But the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand;
In yesterday’s enews I made a small mistake when I wrote: “To discover what the Holy Bible says (and doesn’t say), join us on Thursday, April 8, at 4 pm Pacific Time for a Bible
This Monday (April 8) will be a historic day for many North Americans as the moon perfectly aligns with the sun causing a rare total eclipse. An estimated 34 million Americans will witness the celestial
Social media is ablaze with dramatic video presentations, articles, and posts about the Total Solar Eclipse coming Monday, April 8. Some see it as a date for divine judgments to fall, specifically on America. Tomorrow,
One Comment
There simply one reason Bill Gates will be right. More and more viruses are immune against medication. The use of antibiotica and vaccination in animalfarms has raisen the situation that more and more humans are not able to treat infects. This can make illnesses like plague, diphterie and others very dangerous. If we are not able to treat those illnesses situation like in the mid age can raise.
Then it can be possible that some million people can die in several months. But this will not be the world’s end scenario. We are more than 7 bio people on earth. 400 million humans are the limit, then growth increase dramatically. This situation will only change if humans have a natural enemy.