Bill Gates’ “prophecy” at Munich Security Conference – CEPI: to enable a vaccine in 90 days or less
"Prophetic" quotes from Bill Gates speech [1] at the Munich Security Conference on February 17, 2017 , setting the stage f: "I decided 20 years ago to make global health the focus of my philanthropic work"...I spend a lot of my time on the effort to eradicate polio... It's also true that the next epidemic could originate on the computer screen of a terrorist intent on using genetic engineering to create a synthetic version of the smallpox virus . . . or a super contagious and deadly strain of the flu....The point is, we ignore the link between health security and international security at our peril. The good news is that with advances in biotechnology, new vaccines and drugs can help prevent epidemics from spreading out of control. Vaccines can be especially important in containing epidemics. But today, it typically takes up to 10 years to develop and license a new vaccine. To significantly curb deaths from a fast-moving airborne pathogen, we would have to get that down considerably—to 90 days or less. We took an important step last month with the launch of a new public-private partnership called the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). The hope is that CEPI..> READ MORE