{"id":143929,"date":"2021-11-07T02:06:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T02:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=143929"},"modified":"2021-11-07T02:06:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T02:06:01","slug":"bill-gates-warns-terrorists-will-try-to-use-smallpox-as-a-biological-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/bill-gates-warns-terrorists-will-try-to-use-smallpox-as-a-biological-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates warns terrorists will try to use smallpox as a biological weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Billionaire Bill Gates has warned terrorists may deploy smallpox in busy airports as a biological weapon in the future.<\/p>\n

The Microsoft founder issued the bleak warning to world leaders, urging them to prepare for disasters like 'smallpox terror attacks'.<\/p>\n

He called for a billion-dollar Pandemic Task Force to be set up at the World Health Organisation during a Policy Exchange thinktank interview with Jeremy Hunt this week.<\/p>\n

He said the research, albeit expensive, could lead to other innovations – including eradicating flu and the common cold.<\/p>\n

Gates suggested countries like the UK and US must spend "tens of billions" to fund the research so the world is prepared for the next pandemic.<\/p>\n

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He said: "I'm hoping in five years, I can write a book called, 'We ARE ready for the next pandemic', but it'll take tens of billions in R&D \u2013 the US and the UK will be part of that.<\/p>\n

"It'll take probably about a billion a year for a pandemic Task Force at the WHO level, which is doing the surveillance and actually doing what I call 'germ games' where you practise."<\/p>\n

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