What about the next pandemic?

5/18/2017

Consider, here, that 500 million people worldwide were killed in the Spanish Flu pandemic, nearly 100 years ago. Now pair that with the ease of travel we have in our age.

To be certain, we’ve had scares with avian flu, Ebola, and Zika but none attained this magnitude. Are we capable of handling an outbreak with this kind of impact?
Read more at Lawfare Blog, here: http://ht.ly/HDQy30bPWwe

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