New epidemic: Will we react faster and better than COVID-19?

“I hope 20 years, but we have to assume it could happen in three years. There is a reasonable probability that the world will face something similar in the next 10 or 15 years”, Bill Gates said.

Coronervirus ' pandemic did not surprise Gates, who has been talking about such a threat for years. Presented at “TED” in 2015, he warned that the United States and other countries are not ready for a pandemic.

If anything kills more than 10 million people in the coming decades, it's probably a highly contagious virus, not a war. Not rockets, but germs”, Gates warned at the time.

Epidemiologists and officials of the World Health Organization (OBSH) have been warning for years about the possible performance and pandemic of some new highly contagious diseases often referred to as “X” disease.

Each year there is at least one new disease ranging from animals to humans. People have always been affected by new pathogens, but it seems that never before has this process taken place as quickly as today”, said epidemiologist Mark Woolhouse of the University of Edinburgh in 2006.

Viruses on our planet live for millions of years, much longer than Homo sapiens. There are about 1.6 million viruses in mammals and birds, of which some 700,000 can have the potential to infect people.

But only 250 of them have been identified to people. Others are waiting, they have not yet taken a decisive step toward people.

The base of new viruses that cause disease in humans is evolved from animal pathogens, and this transition from animals to humans has shown much more likely in areas where there is frequent contact between humans and wildlife.

Hence, new diseases are likely to appear in Central Africa, the Amazon basin, and Southeast Asia. Tash