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History has also taught us that the gods like to dish out nasty surprises every few years: dot-com bubbles, subprime mortgage crises, pandemics, etc.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 16, 2026

The World Health Organization said Friday that divided member states want up to a year of further negotiations on the missing piece of an international agreement on handling future pandemics.

From Barron's • May 1, 2026

Flu pandemics are inevitable, even if the timing of the next global outbreak is uncertain.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

Yet Americans seem to have gotten less worried about nuclear weapons since the Cold War: A Pew poll last year found a public preoccupied by terrorism, climate change, pandemics, and other issues.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026

They seem to have an occasional accident, but they have not yet, so far as I know, produced global pandemics.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan