The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What’s Coming | WIRED

The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What’s Coming

Larry Brilliant says he doesn’t have a crystal ball. But 14 years ago, Brilliant, the epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox, spoke to a TED audience and described what the next pandemic would look like. At the time, it sounded almost too horrible to take seriously. “A billion people would get sick,” he said.