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Pandemics - Can we eliminate major worldwide epidemics?

Larry Brilliant, President of the Skoll Global Threats Fund, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School.
In our interconnected world the possibilities for a deadly virus to spread rapidly are frightening. According to Dr Larry Brilliant, the modernity which is creating and causing the rapid spread of viruses, through international travel and global food supply chains, could actually provide us with the solutions to their spread.
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People
Larry Brilliant
Keywords
Energy
Governance
Environment
society
Health
Medicine
ethics
technology
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Date Added: 06/11/2012
Duration: 00:55:31

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