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 pandemics before they spread.

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[TiborZutron]

4:10 The most inappropriate laugh ever!!!!!!

[pepangelist]

Tremendous achievement

[julo19]

the key for erradicating smallpox was the iniciative of the communist countries, all the rest is bullshit!

[serialcomplexity]

This should have more views and likes! Spread this video around like (pardon the pun) a virus amongst the web so people can find out!

[GaryGeckDotCom]

Yea WTF was that?!

[thomasey2]

This is a super human being , achievement above any 2 and 1 sector is able to accomplish , your video is the most significant event in planetary human health made since ever recorded.

My understanding is that this is meaning full.

[BodaciousBurnley]

Is it just me or did Vernor Vinge not illustrate this idea perfectly in the opening chapter of "Rainbows End"?

[lumpiniamorrei]

jomymathew99, I have a question for you. When and where did you obtain this theory that you mentioned?  Do you have scientific proof? Documents? May I ask what qualification and background you have? I have medical background and I never ever heard anything close to what you have said

[AppA]

This is not a very good lecture to eat cereals on :S

[jomymathew99]

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.

[werecow2003]

Was reading about larry page, apparently.