Bill Gates: The next outbreak? We're not ready
Bill Gates: La prochaine épidémie? Nous sommes loin d'être prêt.
A passionate techie and a shrewd businessman, Bill Gates changed the world while leading Microsoft to dizzying success. Now he's doing it again with his own style of philanthropy and passion for innovation. Full bio
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c'était une guerre nucléaire.
was a nuclear war.
comme celui-ci dans notre sous-sol
down in our basement,
et d'eau.
hunker down, and eat out of that barrel.
sous-sol et nous nourrir du contenu du baril.
of global catastrophe
plus grande
(virus grippal)
in the next few decades,
de 10 millions de personnes prochainement,
a highly infectious virus
ce soit un virus hautement contagieux,
des microbes.
in nuclear deterrents.
dans la dissuasion nucléaire,
in a system to stop an epidemic.
des épidémies.
prochaine épidémie.
in the newspaper,
parler dans les téléjournaux.
through the case analysis tools
en me référant au plan d'éradication
that didn't work well enough,
n'est pas un mauvais plan d'action,
didn't have a system at all.
de plan d'action.
key missing pieces.
qui n'étaient pas du tout présents.
ready to go, who would have gone,
d'épidémiologiste prêt à partir
seen how far it had spread.
d'évaluer son degré de propagation.
sur papier.
en ligne immédiatement
before they were put online
médicale prête à partir,
pour notre population.
did a great job orchestrating volunteers.
efficace pour recruter des volontaires,
than we should have been
trop lentement avant
into these countries.
dans ces pays.
to have hundreds of thousands of workers.
centaines de milliers de travailleurs.
to look at treatment approaches.
tester des traitements,
what tools should be used.
taken the blood of survivors,
le sang des survivants
back in people to protect them.
comme vaccin.
are really a global failure.
but not to do these things I talked about.
épidémies, pas pour fournir ces éléments.
c'est une autre histoire:
epidemiologists ready to go,
toujours prêt à partir et
but that's just pure Hollywood.
Hollywoodienne.
pourrait mener à un résultat
could allow the next epidemic
more devastating than Ebola
lors de la prochaine épidémie.
of Ebola over this year.
cette année.
West African countries.
trois pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest.
it didn't spread more.
de se propager.
of heroic work by the health workers.
travailleurs de la santé.
prevented more infections.
les infections.
that they're bedridden.
que l'on reste alité.
into many urban areas.
beaucoup de villes.
more urban areas,
would have been much larger.
monté en flèche.
peut-être pas aussi chanceux...
feel well enough while they're infectious
contagieux avant que la personne ne
or they go to a market.
l'avion ou se rendre au marché.
a natural epidemic like Ebola,
être une cause naturelle,
make things a thousand times worse.
les choses mille fois pire.
of a virus spread through the air,
virus aérien,
very, very quickly.
très très rapidement.
died from that epidemic.
en mourraient.
des plus sérieux.
a really good response system.
construire un plan stratégique efficace.
and technology that we talk about here.
la technologie.
and get information out to them.
communication avec la population.
where people are and where they're moving.
voir les mouvements de la population.
the turnaround time to look at a pathogen
temps requis pour examiner un pathogène
that fit for that pathogen.
des médicaments adéquats.
into an overall global health system.
en une seule entité de santé.
on how to get prepared
selon moi,
waiting to go.
à partir en tout temps.
us up to large numbers.
protéger la majorité de la population.
that can deploy very rapidly.
peut déployer très rapidement.
to check, are people well trained?
guerres pour vérifier que les gens sont
about fuel and logistics
que quiconque le rouage des opérations.
ils sont prêts.
we need to deal with an epidemic.
devrait être faite pour les épidémies.
in poor countries.
systèmes de santé dans les pays pauvres
can give birth safely,
donner naissance en sécurité,
the outbreak very early on.
débuts d'épidémie rapidement.
d'un corps médical permanent,
the training and background
entraînés
medical people with the military.
avec notre armée
to move fast, do logistics
de celle-ci, habituée à travailler
so that we see where the holes are.
pour voir ce qu'il reste à améliorer.
was done in the United States
à eut lieu aux États-Unis,
and it didn't go so well.
s'est pas bien passé.
Microbes: 1, Population: 0.
in areas of vaccines and diagnostics.
like the Adeno-associated virus,
comme avec le virus associé au adénovirus,
for what this would cost,
tout cela coûterait, mais
compared to the potential harm.
comparé à ce qui pourrait arriver.
if we have a worldwide flu epidemic,
y avait un épidémie mondiale de grippe,
by over three trillion dollars
plus de trois billions de dollars
and millions of deaths.
des millions de morts.
qui vont bien au-delà
offer significant benefits
la prochaine épidémie.
les R. & D, etc,
global health equity
dans la santé mondiale,
as well as more safe.
plus juste, mais plus sécuritaire.
be a priority.
absolument être une priorité.
or go down into the basement.
de spaghettis ni à s'enfermer au sous-sol,
because time is not on our side.
car le temps est contre nous.
that can come out of the Ebola epidemic,
qui ressort de l'épidémie d'Ebola,
warning, a wake-up call, to get ready.
afin que l'on puisse se préparer.
for the next epidemic.
sérons prêt pour la prochaine épidémie.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Bill Gates - PhilanthropistA passionate techie and a shrewd businessman, Bill Gates changed the world while leading Microsoft to dizzying success. Now he's doing it again with his own style of philanthropy and passion for innovation.
Why you should listen
Bill Gates is the founder and former CEO of Microsoft. A geek icon, tech visionary and business trailblazer, Gates' leadership -- fueled by his long-held dream that millions might realize their potential through great software -- made Microsoft a personal computing powerhouse and a trendsetter in the Internet dawn. Whether you're a suit, chef, quant, artist, media maven, nurse or gamer, you've probably used a Microsoft product today.
In summer of 2008, Gates left his day-to-day role with Microsoft to focus on philanthropy. Holding that all lives have equal value (no matter where they're being lived), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has now donated staggering sums to HIV/AIDS programs, libraries, agriculture research and disaster relief -- and offered vital guidance and creative funding to programs in global health and education. Gates believes his tech-centric strategy for giving will prove the killer app of planet Earth's next big upgrade.
Read a collection of Bill and Melinda Gates' annual letters, where they take stock of the Gates Foundation and the world. And follow his ongoing thinking on his personal website, The Gates Notes. His new paper, "The Next Epidemic," is published by the New England Journal of Medicine.
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