Bill Gates has warned that tens of millions of people could die in global pandemic within the next 15 years. The richest man in the world warned world leaders in Munich on Saturday about the threat of biological warfare which he believes is not being taken seriously enough by world governments. During his speech at a Munich security conference, Gates said the international community needed to prepare for epidemics the way the military prepared for war, saying that bioterrorism could wipe out far more people than nuclear weapons. Press TV reports: “The next epidemic could originate on the computer screen of a terrorist intent on using genetic engineering to create a synthetic version of the smallpox virus … or a super contagious and deadly strain of the flu,” said the American genius. He said that getting ready for the deadly pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence. “With nuclear weapons, you’d think you would probably stop after killing 100 million. Smallpox won’t stop. Because the population is naive, and there are no real preparations. That, if it got out and spread, would be a larger number,” he argued. “Whether it occurs by a quirk of nature or at [...]
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