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Global Pandemic

08/01/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

The next global pandemic could wipe out nearly a billion people, computer simulation finds

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security designed a frighteningly realistic scenario to see how prepared the government is for a global pandemic, and the exercise showed how woefully unprepared we are for such a situation. The researchers came up with a scenario that included a disease that could realistically exist and tested […]

02/03/2018 / By David Williams

Is this the global pandemic experts are warning about? They say it will be unstoppable because of the ease of travel

How prepared is the world to take on another pandemic? Not very, according to two of the world’s foremost experts on the subject. Speaking at the recently concluded World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Dr. Sylvie Briand, a specialist in infectious diseases from the World Health Organization (WHO) and Elhadj As Sy, the secretary general […]

05/25/2017 / By Jayson Veley

A global pandemic has a 50 percent chance of wiping out human civilization, reveals online odds firm

For thousands of years, mankind has been trying to predict the way in which the world as we know it will come to an end. Some look at the story of Noah and the Flood in the Bible and predict that the end of times will come in the form of a major religious event. […]

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