It is feared that monkeypox or monkeypox has begun to spread in several countries. Is this proof that Bill Gates' predictions are accurate?
WHO on Saturday (21/5), reported 92 confirmed cases of monkeypox and 28 other cases are still being investigated in various countries. Based on the report, there are 12 countries that have reported cases. Tuesday (24/5), three other countries reported finding new cases of monkeypox. So that a total of 15 countries have reported cases.
Well, Bill Gates is really keen on talking about the pandemic, including predicting the situation in the future. At the end of 2021, he had mentioned smallpox, although he was not specific about monkeypox.
"So, okay, what if a bioterrorist brought smallpox to 10 airports? You know, how the world would respond? There are natural-caused epidemics and bioterrorism-caused epidemics that could even be much worse than what we're experiencing today." said Bill Gates quoted us from Sky News.
Then in February 2022 while speaking at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, Bill Gates said that potential future pandemics would likely be caused by other pathogens that are different from the coronavirus family.
But he added that advances in health technology could help countries cope with the pandemic, if everyone started investing now. "We will have another pandemic. It will be a different pathogen in the future," Gates said at the time.
Of course what Bill Gates said was based on his knowledge and experience in the past, where disease outbreaks repeatedly appeared in the world. He also considered that preventive measures could actually be taken to prevent a pandemic like the corona from happening again.
Bill Gates when speaking at the TED 2022 conference stated that it could actually be the Corona pandemic that would be the last if we took the right steps.
One of them, Bill Gates plans to spend USD 1 billion per year to form a group called the GERM team, which stands for global epidemic response and mobilization. More investment is also needed in the global health system and in research and development.
The GERM team will consist of approximately 3,000 people. Its members are related experts such as infectious disease experts, data scientists, logistics experts to communication and diplomacy experts.
He imagines that the GERM team will immediately move quickly and coordinate with various countries if it is detected that a pandemic will appear. Thus, the pandemic can be prevented, unlike the case of the Corona pandemic.
"The mission is to stop the epidemic before it becomes a pandemic. When the Corona pandemic hits, we are like the city of Rome before there were firefighters and water," said Bill Gates likening.