President Donald Trump may have the nuclear codes, but when it comes to things to be scared about, think biggerAccording to Bill Gates, bioterrorism could be even more deadly.
The Microsoft cofounder warned the world is not paying enough attention to "health security and international security" in some decidedly grim remarks at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, the Guardian reported.
Gates said that a virus, engineered by terrorists to be extra-contagious and deadly, could be devastating.
"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 explained. "And they say there is a reasonable probability the world will experience such an outbreak in the next 10 to 15 years." Read more...
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