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Bill Gates biggest fear – could kill 33M humans in 250 days
- GeorgeOrr 11y agoVery scary. Here's an equally scary TED talk on the same subject by an Epidemiologist: http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_brilliant_wants_to_stop_pandemics http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_brilliant_wants_to_stop_pande... One point he made, is that he did a meta-study amongst his fellow epidemiologists. He found that 90% of them believed there would be a pandemic within their children's or at latest grandchildren's lifetime.
- dragonwriter 11y agoThere have been four flu pandemic in the last century, the most recent less than a decade ago. I'm somewhat surprised that 10% of epidemiologists would expect that we won't have any pandemics in a multi-generation period.
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- Gustomaximus 11y agoIs there a real estimate on this? - The article says 330 million possible deaths. - In the video Bill refers to over 10 million in one year. - The computer simulation show is last shown at 33 million and growing.