Despite Ebola Epidemic’s Lessons, Disease Outbreaks Remain Largest Health Threat To Humans

Vox: The most predictable disaster in the history of the human race
“…No one can say we weren’t warned. And warned. And warned. A pandemic disease is the most predictable catastrophe in the history of the human race, if only because it has happened to the human race so many, many times before…” (Klein, 5/27).

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