MUNICH: War and turmoil go hand-in-hand with disease and are the most likely agents to produce a global pandemic capable of killing millions of people, Bill Gates said on Saturday. "War zones and other fragile state settings are the most difficult places to eliminate epidemics," Gates told the Munich Security Conference. "They're also some of the most likely places for them to begin -- as we've seen with Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and with cholera in the Congo Basin and the Horn of Africa. ""So, to fight global pandemics, we must fight poverty, too... "We were lucky that the last Ebola outbreak was contained before it did.

Source: Economic Times February 18, 2017 17:48 UTC