Over the last decades there have been about thirty newly
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
