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Bill Gates warns of the risk of the next pandemic

Billionaire Bill Gates recently warned the world was at risk of a new pandemic from “a virus we already know”.

In an interview with El Diario newspaper on May 29, Bill Gates said there was a 50% chance that the next pandemic could occur within the next two decades.

According to the Microsoft founder, this pandemic could be caused by a virus known to man, but could also be caused by man-made biological weapons, or “something created by humans”. leap from the natural world” due to climate change.

That’s why Bill Gates’ philanthropic efforts are now mainly focused on immunization and climate change. According to the 66-year-old billionaire, to prevent the next pandemic, countries must spend billions of dollars to research potential pathogens and set up a task force of 3,000 experts to do this work.

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Billionaire Bill Gates. Photo: Reuters

When asked about monkeypox that is appearing in many countries around the world today, Bill Gates dismissed the risk that the disease could become the next pandemic. Still, he noted that vigilance needed to be maintained, as hundreds of cases of monkeypox virus have emerged in Europe.

Earlier this month, Bill Gates said that humanity has not yet been able to live stably with the Covid-19 pandemic, and warned that the corona virus still has the risk of creating some new variants, capable of spreading faster. and even higher mortality rates.

The Microsoft founder has long advocated the goal of eradicating disease through vaccination. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he was one of the world’s leading vaccine advocates, often appearing on television to urge the public to get vaccinated.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation founded by Bill Gates and his ex-wife has contributed $300 million to the Coalition for Pandemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), thereby supporting the establishment of the Covax mechanism to provide a Covid vaccine. -19 for low- and middle-income countries.

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