Billionaire Bill Gates says there’s a 50 per cent chance the next
pandemic will be caused by man-made climate change or be deliberately
released by a bio-terrorist.
The Microsoft founder made the comments during an interview with Spanish news outlet El Diario.
Asserting
that the next major pandemic is likely to occur within 20 years, Gates
said, “It could be a virus made by man, by a bioterrorist who designed
it and intentionally circulated it. That is a very scary scenario
because they could try to spread it in different places at once.”
“Or
it could be something that makes the leap from the natural world. The
human population is growing and we are invading more and more
ecosystems. That is why I calculate that there is a 50% chance that we
will have a pandemic of natural origin in the next 20 years, as a
consequence of climate change,” he added.
The prediction that
climate change will cause a virus which will then require another global
vaccine rollout is somewhat convenient for Gates given that he is
heavily invested in both areas.
Gates reiterated the call made
in his recent book to pump billions of dollars into researching future
pathogens by creating a 3,000-strong team of specialists under the
control of the World Health Organization, which would require a 25%
budgetary increase.
Commenting on the recent outbreak of
monkeypox, Gates said “there is very little chance” it will have an
impact anything like coronavirus, although he cautioned that it could
mutate into something significantly nastier.
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