Warning signs .. Worldwide, nations don’t invest nearly enough in medical aid and prevention, choosing to pump money into the military despite clear signs an epidemic can happen at any time. Picture: Vox, YouTubeSource:Supplied

BILL Gates isn’t worried about a nuclear war devastating the world during his lifetime.

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He doesn’t much think about a meteorite hitting the Earth, or a giant earthquake sending the globe into ruin.

But he does believe that we haven’t learnt anything from the recent Ebola outbreak, which killed more than 10,000 people and panicked the world.

“The Ebola epidemic showed me that we're not ready for a serious epidemic, an epidemic that would be more infectious and that would spread faster than Ebola did,” the billionaire and Microsoft founder has told Vox News.

“This is the greatest risk of a huge tragedy, this is the most likely thing by far to kill over 10 million excess people in a year.”

Mr Gates, who has invested much of his $80 billion fortune in global health, says that unlike “some big volcanic explosion, a gigantic earthquake or asteroid .. the chance of a widespread epidemic far worse than Ebola in my lifetime is well over 50 per cent”.

“If we look at the 20th century and we look at the death chart, I think everybody would say yeah, there must have been a spike for WW1, and sure enough there it is: 25 million,” he says.

“And then everybody would stay there must a spike for World War II and sure it is, there’s like 65 million.

“But then you’ll see this other spike that is as large as WWII right after WWI, and most people will say, what was that?”

That, Mr Gates says, is Spanish Influenza: a disease so deadly, it killed more than 65 million people. No one knows where it came from or when it began: “It’s called the Spanish flu because the Spanish press were there first to report openly about it. And so in the annals of epidemic history, that’s the big event”.

In his interview, Mr Gates explains the two types of flu variations in the world: there is the flu that spreads effectively between humans, and there is the flu that kills “lots of people”.

“And those two properties have only been combined into a widespread flu once in history. Well that is Spanish Influenza, where an estimated 65 million people died”.

Unless the world starts investing money in disease prevention research, we risk being wiped out by an epidemic greater than the Spanish Influenza. Picture: Vox, YouTubeSource:Supplied

Worldwide, nations don’t invest nearly enough in medical aid and prevention, choosing to pump money into the military — Vox News has counted the US spent $560 billion in the last financial year on defence — instead of global health and epidemic preparation, Mr Gates says.

“We don’t need to invest nearly what we do in military preparedness .. This is something where less than a billion a year [is spent] on medical surveillance, standby personnel, cross training the military so they can play a role in terms of the logistics,” Mr Gates says.

“At least with the nuclear case, you've got to say we take it quite seriously. We budget a lot of money and we have a lot of people who think about nuclear deterrents. I read the probably of nuclear war happening in my lifetime as very low.”

The billionaire, who funded a disease modelling group to fight polio, says they have looked into the effects a modern-day, Spanish Influenza-type flu would have on the world. Naturally speaking dragon free download.

The results were frightening.

Bundle for wedding. Epidemic .. Bill Gates says today, the world would fall much quicker than in 1918 during the Spanish Influenza episode. Picture: Vox, YouTubeSource:Supplied

Day 118 .. More than 3 million dead. Picture: Vox, YouTubeSource:Supplied

Day 182 .. The world spirally out of control as disease spreads. Picture: Vox, YouTubeSource:Supplied Friday funkin night game mods.

Day 201 .. Most of the world is infected or close to being infected. Picture: Vox, YouTubeSource:Supplied

“And so, if you get something like the flu, you look at that map in how within days it's basically in all urban centres on the entire globe that is every eye opening — that didn't happen with Spanish flu in the past,” Mr Gates says.

Despite today’s advanced health care, modern modes and rate of transport would ensure that any disease would spread rapidly through the globe, infecting 50 times as many people than in 1918 within the same space of time.

Mr Gates says that “today, the idea that somebody says, oh, here’s an antibody, make a lot of it, make it very quickly” is “right on the cutting edge” — and cannot yet be effectively done to counteract a massive disease outbreak.

“We saw that with Ebola,” he says.

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What remains is investment: investment in the Earth’s future and an investment in prevention techniques that would enable nations to produce enough drugs and antibodies to fight a devastating outbreak.

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“This can be done, and we may not get any more warning like this one [Ebola] to say OK, it’s a pretty modest investment to avoid something that really, in terms of the human condition, would be a gigantic setback.”

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A video simulation reveals how a contagious disease from London could infect populations around the world within a few short weeks.