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Larry Brilliant: TED Prize wish: Help stop the next pandemic

http://www.ted.com Accepting the 2006 TED Prize, Dr. Larry Brilliant talks about how smallpox was eradicated from the planet, and calls for a new global system that can identify and contain pandem...  
 
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AppA (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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This is not a very good lecture to eat cereals on :S
jomymathew99 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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poor man donot know what exactly is going on in human body. when small pox disappers another bigger ones outbreaks. smallpox stages of infecion is actually defence mechanism to expel the toxin or virus in the body. and this poor man eradicated it by suppressing the smallpox. do u know what u did? u suppresed the small illness to an outbreak of a bigger epidemic.
TiborZutron (9 months ago) Show Hide
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4:10 The most inappropriate laugh ever!!!!!!
werecow2003 (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Was reading about larry page, apparently.
Mrmoc7 (10 months ago) Show Hide
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I think I have the copy right on the above quote: "conspiracy theorist nutjobs,"  but I agree wholeheartedly! -:)
Mrmoc7 (10 months ago) Show Hide
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I agree wholeheartedly. The guy laughing wasn't trying to make fun of unfortunate people.
VivekisV (11 months ago) Show Hide
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This talk makes me proud to be human.
SpreadingAwareness (9 months ago) Show Hide
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makes a change doesnt it lol. i normally feel ashamed of it
DrakeDun (1 year ago) Show Hide
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Seriously. I breathed a deep sigh of relief when I realized what that was about. If Brilliant hadn't intuited why that guy was laughing, everyone would have thought was the biggest asshole on Earth, forever.
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transfered by US military fucking apes

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