Page 18 - Pandemic: How Climate, the Environment, and Superbugs Increase the Risk

Over the last decades there have been about thirty newly Goldsmith
emerging diseases that had the potential to be pandemics.
It’s not a matter of if there will be a global pandemic, it’s
just a matter of when and which virus and how bad.
—Dr. Larry Brilliant, chair, Skoll Global Threats Fund, 2017

We’re more vulnerable [to infectious diseases] because
of our mobility. We’re also living more and more in
crowded cities. That’s fantastic from the perspective
of a virus because in no time it can infect hundreds of
thousands of people.
—Dr. Peter Piot, director, London School of Hygiene
and Tropical Medicine, 2017 and Superbugs Increase the Risk How Clima te, The Environment ,