Are we ready for possible global pandemics?

[Angela]

Maybe not, according to this author...

http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/hs.2017.0037

[Diomedes]

I don't think so. At the end of the day, pandemics are a way for nature to bring balance to highly increased populations.

[bicicleur]

fears for pandemics have been very lucrative for the pharmaceutical industry a few times in the last decades
but none of these pandemics realy happened

highly increased populations we do have nowadays

however I think reduced immuum systems due to hyper hygienic conditions in the west are also becoming a threat