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The next outbreak? We're not ready — Bill Gates
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  • 0:17From nuclear war to viral threats
  • 1:03The Ebola failure
  • 4:40Building a response system
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When I was a kid, the disaster we worried about most was a nuclear war.

0:23
Speaker 1

That's why we had a barrel like this down in our basement, filled with cans of food and water.

0:42
Speaker 1

But today the greatest risk of global catastrophe doesn't look like this.

0:51
Speaker 1

Instead, it looks like this. If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades…