Those agencies are already falling short, as we saw last year, when they couldn’t effectively respond to the Zika threat. By some estimates, the 1918-19 “Spanish” influenza killed more people than all the wars of the 20th century combined. Today, an influenza pandemic could be more devastating than an atom bomb. We cannot rely on pharmaceutical companies to create drugs and vaccines for markets that do not yet exist. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyWe are talking about national security on the most existential level.

Source: New York Times March 24, 2017 23:26 UTC