Alarm: This is the flu that spreads in 36 hours and can kill 80 million people.

A flu-like disease could travel worldwide in 36 hours and kill 80 million people, experts have warned.

A century ago, the Spanish flu pandemic infected one third of the world's population and killed 50 million people.

If a similar explosion occurred with the constant population that travels today, the effects could be even worse, suggests a report.

The Global Readiness Monitoring Board (GPMB), a team of health experts led by a former head of the World Health Organisation, has compiled the report to test and promote world leaders in action.

“The threat of an pandemic spreading across the globe is a possible truth,” said the group in a report released today reports Daily Mail.

A rapidly moving pathogen has the potential to kill tens of millions of people, disrupt economies and destabilise national security. ”

The report, dubbed AWorld At Risk, says current efforts to prepare for bombings after crises such as Ebola, are extremely inadequate. The GPMB is run by Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Norwegian Prime Minister and WHO Director General, and Alhadj As Sy, secretary general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Half-Red Associations.

In her report, she said recommendations made in a previous report were largely ignored by world leaders. Many of the recommendations discussed have been poorly implemented, or have not been implemented at all, and serious gaps continue”, the GPMB wrote. For a long time, we have allowed a cycle of panic and neglect when it comes to pandemics: we strengthen efforts when there is a serious threat, then quickly forget them when the threat fades.

The GPMB report warned: There is a very real threat to a fast, deadly respiratory pandemic that kills 50 to 80 million people and wipes out nearly five percent of the world's economy.

A global pandemic on that scale would be catastrophic, creating widespread destruction, instability, and uncertainty. The world is not prepared.

In the case of an pandemic, many national health systems especially in poor countries would fall, they said.

“Poverty and fragility exacerbate the outbreaks of infectious diseases and help create conditions for maintaining pandemics,” said Axel van Trotsenburg, a task officer of the World Bank executive chief and a panel member.

The report stipulates a series of actions the international community must take to protect people worldwide in the event of a disease spreading out of control.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebraesus, director general of WHO, called on governments to listen to the lessons these explosions are teaching us and to fix the roof before the rain comes.

In their recommendations, the team said governments should make money to set up preparations and do routine exercises for simulations.

The G7, G20 and G77 should provide an example for the rest of the world to follow, they added, and all sides must prepare for the worst.

They also called for more private investments in the country's pandemic preparations and said that the UN should do more to co-ordinate the answers beyond international borders.

O The BSH also warned early this year that another flu pandemic é, which is caused by air-based viruses, is inevitable, and added that the world must prepare for it.