Microsoft founder Bill Gates speaks during the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017. (Photo | AP)
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Bill Gates warns conflicts stoke risk of global pandemic
War and turmoil go hand-in-hand with disease and are the most likely agents to produce a global pandemic capable of killing millions of people, Bill Gates said.
MUNICH: War and turmoil go hand-in-hand with disease and are the most likely agents to produce a global pandemic capable of killing millions of people, Bill Gates said on Saturday.
"War zones and other fragile state settings are the most difficult places to eliminate epidemics," Gates told the Munich Security Conference.
"They’re also some of the most likely places for them to begin -- as we’ve seen with Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and with cholera in the Congo Basin and the Horn of Africa."