BendiNewsTest: Bill Gates warns that the world must prepare now for a Spanish Flu-like pandemic

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Monday, June 1, 2015

Bill Gates warns that the world must prepare now for a Spanish Flu-like pandemic

You might think that the richest man in the world would sleep pretty easy, but billionaire Bill Gates recently told Ezra Klein at Vox about the one big fear that keeps him up at night. According to Gates, the chances of a worldwide, devastating pandemic – like the Spanish Flu that wiped out nearly 5% of the world’s population in 1918 – are disconcertingly high. So high, in fact, that to fail to act on the threat right now is “reckless.”