gates: global pandemic may reappear in the next 25 years
2024-09-16
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reference news reported on september 16will there be a war or a global pandemic in the future? microsoft founder bill gates warned that even if the world manages to avoid the former, the latter is likely to happen in the next 25 years.
"even if we can avoid a major pandemic ... there will be another pandemic, most likely in the next 25 years," gates said in an interview with cnbc's "money."
after seeing how ill-prepared the world was for the coronavirus pandemic, gates has joined a chorus of scientists who worry about what the world would look like if another global health emergency engulfs humanity.
gates wrote a book on the subject in 2022, "how to prevent the next pandemic," in which he proposed solutions to the problem of insufficient preparation for the pandemic, including strengthening isolation technology and investing in vaccine research.
the university of california, los angeles medical center said that the new coronavirus vaccine became the fastest vaccine ever developed, taking less than 12 months from identifying the pathogen to developing a vaccine against it.
however, it was only after the world experienced the tragedy of full hospital beds, shortage of ventilators and millions of deaths that relevant treatment and prevention measures were developed.
since then, infectious disease experts have been considering the possibility of another pandemic in the near future. experts believe that a pathogen could eventually jump from animals to humans and cause a new disease. monkeypox and bird flu have already made headlines as potential threats.
