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Bill Gates Warns Tens of Millions Could be Killed by Bio-Terrorism
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Bio-terrorism could kill 30 million people in a year, says Bill Gates
Microsoft founder and philanthropist tells Munich security conference genetic engineering could be terrorist weapon
theguardian.com - Bill Gates / Ewen MacAskill - February 18, 2017
A chilling warning that tens of millions of people could be killed by bio-terrorism was delivered at the Munich security conference by the world’s richest man, Bill Gates
Gates, who has spent much of the last 20 years funding a global health campaign, said: “We ignore the link between health security and international security at our peril.”
Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft who has spent billions in a philanthropic drive to improve health worldwide, said: “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.”
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