Global pandemic could wipe out 900 million people

Virus simulation shows governments and health bodies are insufficiently prepared for flu-like breakout

Health workers wearing protective clothing during the Ebola outbreak in Liberia in 2014
(Image credit: Dominque Faget/AFP/Getty Images)

Governments and international health bodies are wholly unprepared for a global flu pandemic that could wipe out almost a billion people, scientists have warned.

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