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Very scary. Here's an equally scary TED talk on the same subject by an Epidemiologist:

http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_brilliant_wants_to_stop_pande...

One point he made, is that he did a meta-study amongst his fellow epidemiologists. He found that 90% of them believed there would be a pandemic within their children's or at latest grandchildren's lifetime.

There have been four flu pandemic in the last century, the most recent less than a decade ago. I'm somewhat surprised that 10% of epidemiologists would expect that we won't have any pandemics in a multi-generation period.

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